LOS ANGELES — Timing isn’t everything when it comes to the Academy Awards — but it helps. Two big fall films — Martin Scorsese’s box-office success ‘‘The Departed’’ and Clint Eastwood’s faltering ‘‘Flags of Our Fathers’’ — are bookends for the benefits and hazards of releasing acclaimed films early in awards season, when they could either get a jump on front-runner status or be forgotten come Oscar time.
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