Atlanta's Oscar connections

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Jimmy Kimmel hosts the 2017 Academy Awards, airing at 7 p.m. tonight on ABC. Given Georgia's booming film industry, we're naturally on the lookout for local ties among the winners.

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The AJC's Oscar Party team got some inside intel:

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