The Oscars are virtually upon us, and whether you like them or hate them, it's still loads of fun to try to predict them. This year we have two excellent prizes for whoever picks the most winners:
First, everyone who correctly picks the winners in at least 6 of the 10 categories will receive a lovely forum to display next to their avatar.
Second, the person who correctly picks the greatest number of winners in these 10 categories will receive a 6', free-standing, cardboard cut-out of Oscar himself, which will be mailed free of charge. How awesome is that? Very awesome.
The rules are simple, post your picks in the following 10 categories, and whoever picks the most wins a prize. In the event of a tie we will look at the categories in descending order, eliminating entries as soon as they guess wrong, and the last one standing wins. In the event that more than one person picked all 10 perfectly, we will declare you all tim-traveling cheaters and keep the prizes for ourselves.
All entries must be posted on or before Saturday, February 24, at 11:59 pm. Anything later than that will not be counted.
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Best Achievement in Directing
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Paul Greengrass for United 93
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel
Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Penelope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren for The Queen
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Djimoun Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel
Best Original Screenplay
Guillermo Arriaga for Babel
Iris Yamashita, Paul Haggis for Letters From Iwo Jima
Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labrynth
Peter Morgan for The Queen
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby for Children of Men
William Monahan for The Departed
Todd Field, Tom Perrotta for Little Children
Patrick Marber for Notes on a Scandal
Best Cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia
Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Dick Pope for The Illusionist
Guillermo Navarro for Pan's Labrynth
Wally Pfister for The Prestige
Best Documentary Feature
Amy Berg, Frank Donner for Deliver Us from Evil
Davis Guggenheim for An Inconvenient Truth
James Longley, Yahya Sinno for Iraq in Fragments
Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady for Jesus Camp
Laura Poitras, Jocelyn Glatzer for My Country My Country