Oscar season begins!
Who loves contests? EVERYONE. Get yourselves ready for the biggest hugest Oscar contest of your life. Kindly sponsored by as yet unnamed sponsor.
Other than Susan, who loves the Academy Awards? I thought I’d provide you a handy list of the award categories and nominees, you’re going to need them. For what you ask? FOR THE RVANews OSCAR POOL! DJUN! Last year Justin, the Wife, Suze, and I had a sweet Oscar competition which resulted in delicious cupcakes. I’m not how sure the prize became “Susan makes everyone cupcakes,” but I’m certainly glad it did. I’d also like to point out that Happy Feet did indeed win Best Animated.
This year we are opening up the contest to you cretins.
It will work thusly: each category will be given a point value, the Big Categories will be worth more than the Small Categories. Everyone will fill out a ballot. The winner will be showered with prizes from our future sponsor (Westhampton, I’m looking at you).
So, express your immense interest in the comments and stay tuned for information. Let the battle begin, the power is yours!
Best Picture
- Atonement
- Juno
- Michael Clayton
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
Actor
- George Clooney, Michael Clayton
- Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
- Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
- Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Actress
- Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Julie Christie, Away From Her
- Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
- Laura Linney, The Savages
- Ellen Page, Juno
Supporting Actor
- Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
- Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
- Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Supporting Actress
- Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
- Ruby Dee, American Gangster
- Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
- Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
- Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Director
- Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Jason Reitman, Juno
- Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
- Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Foreign Film
- Beaufort, Israel
- The Counterfeiters, Austria
- Katyn, Poland
- Mongol, Kazakhstan
- 12, Russia
Adapted Screenplay
- Christopher Hampton, Atonement
- Sarah Polley, Away from Her
- Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
- Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Original Screenplay
- Diablo Cody, Juno
- Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
- Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
- Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, Ratatouille
- Tamara Jenkins, The Savages.
Animated Feature Film
- Persepolis
- Ratatouille
- Surf’s Up
Art Direction
- American Gangster
- Atonement
- The Golden Compass
- Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- There Will Be Blood
Cinematography
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Atonement
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
Sound Mixing
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- No Country for Old Men
- Ratatouille
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Transformers
Sound Editing
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- No Country for Old Men
- Ratatouille
- There Will Be Blood
- Transformers
Original Score
- Atonement, Dario Marianelli
- The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias
- Michael Clayton, James Newton Howard
- Ratatouille, Michael Giacchino
- 3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami
Original Song
- Falling Slowly from Once, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
- Happy Working Song from Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
- Raise It Up from August Rush, Nominees to be determined
- So Close from Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
- That’s How You Know from Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
Costume
- Across the Universe
- Atonement
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- La Vie en Rose
- Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Documentary Feature
- No End in Sight
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
- Sicko
- Taxi to the Dark Side
- War/Dance
Documentary (short subject)
- Freeheld
- La Corona (The Crown)
- Salim Baba
- Sari’s Mother
Film Editing
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Into the Wild
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
Makeup
- La Vie en Rose
- Norbit
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Animated Short Film
- I Met the Walrus
- Madame Tutli-Putli
- Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
- My Love (Moya Lyubov)
- Peter & the Wolf
Live Action Short Film
- At Night
- Il Supplente (The Substitute)
- Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
- Tanghi Argentini
- The Tonto Woman
Visual Effects
- The Golden Compass
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
- Transformers
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Ross Catrow
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hahahah cretins
I could be convinced to make Oscar cupcakes again. What if Susan’s Fictional Bakeshop sponsored it.
Dude, I am totally in. I am choosing Transformers to sweep every category, even ones it was not in! Are you going to create some survey of some kind? Last time, I recall people leaving their picks in the comments and it got messy and I got confused. But that’s up to you, because I am certainly too lazy to create something like that.
Yeah it will be a secret ballot / survey. That way people won’t influence each other.
I would say “Don’t worry, people, I won’t be competing, so you’ll all have a better chance,” but then I can think of at least one person who will be very quick to let you know that I completely lost last year. I don’t think I was even close. Sigh.
Incidentally, who do you think won the oscars pool last year? I did. You folks had better watch out this year.