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Producer with Austin ties gets Best Picture Oscar nomination for ‘The Help’

By Matthew Odam | Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 11:01 AM

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“The Help” received four nominations, including a best picture nomination for producer Brunson Green. A graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Green, who has a home in Austin, began his film career in Austin working on the Bill Witliff-penned “Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life.”

Green said he, “The Help” actress Octavia Spencer, who received a best supporting actress nomination, and executive producer Tate Taylor had a slumber party Monday night and watched the nomination announcement together on Tuesday morning.

“Whatever happens, we started this trip together, whether it’s good or bad,” Green said by phone Tuesday. “We were hoping to get nominated, but it’s always a surprise because you just never know what the Academy is going to do; so we were thrilled at 5:30 a.m. to be up. Octavia was screaming her lungs out. It was great.”

(Photo: Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis are shown in a scene from “The Help.” (DISNEY/Dale Robinette)

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