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Star Wars wasn’t good enough. Close Encounters of the Third Kind couldn’t do it. Blade Runner, E.T., and 2001: A Space Oddyssey didn’t make it. WALL-E, King Kong, Forbidden Planet, Farenheit 451, and Jurassic Park lost the race. War of the Worlds, Minority Report and A.I. made millions, but were shut out of Hollywood’s biggest prize. But tonight, after ninety years — you read that right, nearly a century — the Oscar for Best Picture went to a science fiction film. For. The. First. Time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first handed out prizes for film achievement in…