Who's up Oscar bait? Tom Hanks portrays two real people this fall: Walt Disney in "Saving Mr. Banks" (which opens the AFI Festival) and "Captain Phillips" (pictured) in that Somali pirate drama.
Who's down Bob Peterson has been removed as director of Pixar's 2014 offering "The Good Dinosaur," the fourth time a director has been yanked by the studio.
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