Multiplex: 10 Games Oscar-Watchers Will Love

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What They've Got In Common: A pair of brothers (Winklevoss/Mario & Luigi) who have their object of affection (a social networking website/Princess Peach) stolen away by a horrible cowardly beast (Mark Zuckerberg/Bowser), and, in order to get back what's rightfully theirs, employ a large group of tiny ineffectual creatures (lawyers/Toads). It's a perfect match!
Fun Fact: The real-life Tyler Winklevoss actually walks into parties announcing "Eet's-a me!" in a high-pitched voice.

What They've Got In Common: Black/white duality, intrigue, and intricate choreography.
Fun Fact: Antonio Prohias, the creator of the original "Spy Vs. Spy" strip in Mad Magazine, died 13 years ago yesterday—but that didn't stop his ghost from impregnating Natalie Portman!

What They've Got In Common: Boxing, a fucked-up family life, and a hot love interest.
Fun Fact: Cristian Bale's portrayal of washed-up crackhead Dicky Eklund will become a playable (if terrible) character in a future DLC release of Fight Night Champion. Let the totally unfounded speculation spreading like wildfire begin...now!

What They've Got In Common: Insanity. Sure, Max Payne had dream sequences and Arkham Asylum had ridiculous hallucinations, but Psychonauts has characters journeying into people's brains. INTO THEIR BRAINS!
Fun Fact: Tim Schafer, who conceived of Psychonauts, has a name that anagrams to "Leo DiCaprio." Chew on that one for a while.

What They've Got In Common: A loving committed relationship between women. And many people who saw the movie/played the game because they thought there would be hot lesbian action.
Fun Fact: Hana and Rain, the couple from Fear Effect 2, ranked No. 27 on our 50 Hottest Women In Video Games. Annette Bening's hectoring shrewish character from The Kids Are All Right, however, did not.

What They've Got In Common: A British king who gives a speech! There's no stutter in Fable, though, so you'll have to import that weird kid Sunny from Metal Gear Solid 4 into your game. But then, THEN, you'll have...well, nothing that resembles the movie even remotely.
Fun Fact: Geoffrey Rush's character in The King's Speech, much like Jasper in Fable III, is actually voiced by John Cleese. No, seriously.

What They've Got In Common: Love, loss, memory, and severing appendages.
Fun Fact: Also, James Franco wrote, project-directed, and voiced the five principal characters in Heavy Rain. Seriously, that guy does everything.

What They've Got In Common: Hahahahaha, you thought we were gonna say Red Dead Redemption. Nope! Only Call of Juarez can match the whole fatherless-child-goes-hunting-for-justice vibe of the Coen Brothers' surprise hit. Also, at no point in True Grit did Rooster Cogburn spend three hours hunting down wild feverfew plants.
Fun Fact: The word "Juarez" is not pronounced how you think. Oh, no no no no, our ignorant Americans—it's pronounced "Duty."

What They've Got In Common: Little sisters trying to keep their family together while everyone around them goes apeshit and acts like zombies for a crazy drug that (they think) gives them enhanced abilities? It's like Ken Levine wrote the script!
Fun Fact: Ayn Rand, whose Objectivist philosophies permeate the undersea Art Deco world of Rapture in BioShock, was also an esteemed meth chemist! In fact, Bryan Cranston prepared for his role in Breaking Bad by reading The Fountainhead. Also please don't sue us, any of the people or properties mentioned in the previous sentences. We're only kidding.

What They've Got In Common: Toys. Also, stories. Also, EVERYTHING SINCE ONE IS A LICENSED MERCHANDISING COMPANION OF THE OTHER.
Fun Fact: Pixar has made enough money over the last 15 years to actually buy everyone in the world—against our will, mind you—place us in suspended animation, then revive us all and make us believe that we've all become CGI characters in a PIxar production. And then we'll all laugh and laugh and laugh! And then perhaps our brains will implode from existential panic. And then Steve Jobs will compile all of our souls into a giant hoagie sandwich and eat it while watching Toy Story 3: The Video Game: The Movie.