We’re in the midst of Oscar season* now (and earlier than usual) with Academy ballots already out and the nomination announcements a mere two weeks away, so we continue with…
**The 2nd Annual SDMB
** Academy Award Prediction Contest
- (with real prizes!)*
The Contest will be in 2 parts:
- Predicting the Nominees
- Predicting the Winners
Separate prizes will be given for parts 1 & 2. The first part starts today: submitting your tallies for who will be the 5 nominees in the following categories:
Picture
Actor
Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Director
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Be sure to specify the actor and film in those categories. No more than 5 predictions will be recognized in each category.
Additionally, you are asked to submit one prediction for a nominee in each of the following categories:
Cinematography
Art Direction
Costume Design
Editing
Sound
Sound Editing
Original Score
Original Song
Visual Effects
Make-up
Animated Feature
Foreign-Language Film
There is one catch, though: You cannot predict a film more than once in these last 12 technical/craft categories listed. Sure, it’d be easy to predict a nomination sweep for, say, Lord of the Rings. But limiting you to one film (1) forces you to consider smaller films that always fill out the annual nominee slate, and (2) makes the contest more interesting and less repetitive.
Scoring is simple: One point for each correct guess. There are a couple ways to earn bonus points:
(1) If you correctly guess all 5 nominees in one of the first 8 categories, you earn an extra point.
(2) If you are the only person to guess a particular nominee correctly, you earn an extra point.
Now, a few rules:
- All prediction ballots must be posted in this thread (no personal e-mails to me).
- All predictions must be on a single post.
- You are only allowed one subsequent post to change predictions. Any other requests to change will be ignored.
- All posts must be submitted by 12:01 am PST, Tuesday, January 27.
Some helpful links:
This is the list of all films eligible for the various feature film categories. Make all your predictions from films on this list. This is a list of the films submitted for Foreign Language film. Unless a foreign language film is on this list, it is not eligible in this category, even if it received theatrical release in the US in '03.
And yes, I meant it: I will be putting up a prize for whoever wins either Part I or Part II (Predict the Winners), as I did last year.
Good Luck!
AG
*[sub]yes, I know the Oscars are a load of crap, but irresistible crap–plus, every once in a while, they do get something right.[/sub]
