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Examples
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She's approaching what collectors call "baity", or bait for someone who makes custom MLPs - which are pretty amazing, by the way.
Japanator 2010
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The Artist wouldn't be half the film it is without Dujardin's enchanting and devastating performance, conveyed with more emotion without saying a word than by most actors with pages-long, baity dialogue.
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Because the Oscar-baity Soloist is well and good, but seeing the two bounce off each other in a comedy sounds a lot more appealing.
Casting Notes: Jamie Foxx Reunites With Robert Downey Jr; Josh Brolin Steps in for Sean Penn | /Film 2009
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I'm sure she would have been snubbed several times in the nomination department, finally taking a baity role that fit like a glove.
boy culture 2010
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Crowe was fine in the sense that his performance wasn't quite as appallingly baity as Sean Penn's.
In Contention 2009
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Abbie Cornish is a good bet for some form of year end attention but Ben Whishaw will have a tougher row to hoe at the poet: Headstrong protofeminist women are baity, emotionally sensitive men not so much ... make of that what you will but I personally think it's simple sexism; Women with "masculine" power are respected, men with "feminine" attributes are not.
Film Experience Blog 2009
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BFCA + Globe + Scripter + ASC + BAFTA + baity prestige pick = Oscar.
In Contention 2009
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That's normally not a good sign with a film that looks a bit Oscar baity.
Pajiba 2009
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If this means the Academy nominates more comedies (Funny People), action (Star Trek), horror (Drag Me to Hell), animation (Up) and foreign films instead of oscar baity ones, just awesome! this is my new song for this pig, please help me add lyrics to it:
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton 2009
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If this means the Academy nominates more comedies (Funny People), action (Star Trek), horror (Drag Me to Hell), animation (Up) and foreign films instead of oscar baity ones, just awesome! this is my new song for this pig, please help me add lyrics to it:
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton 2009
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