'Selma,' 'American Sniper' crash the Oscar race on the same night

LOS ANGELES — It'd been roughly two months since a sure-fire new Oscar hopeful hit the scene, and right on the heels of Interstellar come two more — Selma and American Sniper, which landed on the same night Tuesday at AFI Fest.

On the night of Veteran's Day, Selma, the Dr. Martin Luther King biopic covering the 1965 voting-rights marches in Alabama, and Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, the story of Navy SEAL and "most lethal sniper in American military history" Christopher Kyle, debuted in back-to-back screenings at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

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