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Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:43 PM

Milking the Oscar craze to the max, Opensecrets.org has analyzed the donation records of the top actors in the nominated films this year.

"In all, 15 of this year's nominees within the top six Academy Awards categories -- best picture, best director, best lead actor, best lead actress, best supporting actor and best supporting actress -- donated money to federal candidates, parties and political action committees at some point during the past two decades.The cash totaled at more than $400,000, with 87 percent of this money going to identifiably Democratic candidates and political committees, and 2 percent going to Republican candidates and political committees."

You can see the full list here.

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