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GLASS HALF EMPTY Dench isn't planning on winning this year

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Today they're Oscar nominees, but on March 24 they'll become the world's worst audience. ''You try to behave like an adult and it's impossible,'' admits ''Ali'''s Jon Voight -- who, as a four-time nominee and winner for 1978's ''Coming Home,'' is an expert attendee. ''We're all thinking about...what's my speech going to be.'' That is, if they're thinking at all: ''I'll be the dazed, bald, fat man in the corner,'' predicts ''Gosford Park'' scribe Julian Fellowes.

For many, the night will be about losing gracefully -- an art ''Monsters, Inc.'' composer Randy Newman (nominated 16 times, never a winner) has mastered: ''I've gotten really good at standing up to let others pass.'' Former winner Judi Dench (''Iris'') is already bracing for the worst: ''It will be a sitting-down evening for me.'' But Tom Wilkinson (''In the Bedroom'') shows no such resignation: ''You need a nice British hooligan element to liven things up. We'll start a few fights.''

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