Oscar 8-Ball: Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Three years after "The Hurt Locker" and its director, Kathryn Bigelow, won Oscars, the hunt for Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" is putting its director back into the awards-season conversation. How will academy voters respond? Time for another session with the Oscar 8-Ball, our finely calibrated forecasting tool that looks into the minds and hearts of academy members.

By Glenn Whipp

December 20, 2012