There are more than there used to be. There are some cases (such as the girl from Looper and Alec Baldwin's personal assistant in MI:5) where they made a point of casting Chinese nationals to help get traction with the Chinese market.

What about Austrian actors being snubbed?

The race of his character in Training Day is arguably important to that role.

Just off the top of my head, Hattie McDaniel took the award for Best Supporting Actress, so it seems to be all the categories.

Bryan Adams?

Maybe. I'll have to watch it again.

The short version is that one of Sonny's friends convinces him to have his girlfriend get plastic surgery.

Speaking of Jennifer Connelly, there are a lot of Baum's sequels that haven't been adapted.

We did see her. She's the bridesmaid that Sonny is banging during the wedding reception. However, unlike the book, she never appears again in the movie.

And I read "Michael Jackson" as "Michael Jordan" first time through.

I was fine (but not totally blown away) with it when I saw it in theaters. Haven't revisited it, though.

Ah, okay. I was thinking of the scene from "Toy Story 3," however.

So we have a mix of "the bleeding obvious" (2001; The Empire Strikes Back), the really forced, (Kramer vs. Kramer, The Red Balloon, Princess Mononoke), and other others (Die Hard 3) which fall into the "why didn't I notice that before?" category.

There were never such devoted sisters…

For me, it's always John Candy ("They love us in Sheboygan.") (Aside: as a resident of Michigan, I always have to stop and remind myself not to spell the Wisconsin city as Cheboygan.)

E.T.'s time in the Imperial Senate…

Together?

Far from "laying on the uplift with a trowel," that was as close to a completely unhappy ending as Spielberg seems to be able to get. Rylance's character, it's very heavily implied, will probably end up in a prison camp or executed, and Hanks' character comes away unhappy and changed by the experience. It's fairly…

I heard it on the radio before I heard of "Chess", and I did listen to the lyrics. I was utterly lost until I learned the actual context.

No. Or maybe it hypothetically "should be"… but that's not how it's written.