Fantasy Oscar Challenge (Win 1000 tacos!)

[Tsim Sha Tsui]

About a month from now, the winners of the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced in Hollywood. Which film will be the Best Picture? Who will be named Best Director? What are your acting choices? Tell me your picks!

How does this work? Take a look at the nominations over at the Oscar website or the list I've posted below. Decide who you think will win. (Not who should win! That's for the Oscar debate!) Send me, by Private Message, your picks for all categories. Entries must be received on or before February 25th, 2011. Whoever get the most categories correct will win 1000 tacos! In the event of a tie, I shall randomly choose a winner of the tacos, but acknowledge all that achieved a top score.

[Tsim Sha Tsui]

Feel free to copy & paste this list, deleting all but your choices. (I typed all of this for you, damnit!)

The nominations are as follows:

Best Picture: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter’s Bone

Director: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), David Fincher (The Social Network), David O. Russell (The Fighter), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit), Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)

Actor in a Leading Role: James Franco (127 Hours), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Javier Bardem (Biutiful), Jeff Bridges (True Grit), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)

Actress in a Leading Role: Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale (The Fighter), Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech), Jeremy Renner (The Town), John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone), Mark Ruffalo (The Kids Are All Right)

Actress in a Supporting Role: Amy Adams (The Fighter), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), Melissa Leo (The Fighter)

Original Screenplay: Another Year (Mike Leigh), Inception (Christopher Nolan), The Fighter (Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson), The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg), The King’s Speech (David Seidler)

Adapted Screenplay: 127 Hours (Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy), The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin), Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt), True Grit (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)

Foreign Language Film: Biutiful (Mexico), Dogtooth (Greece), In a Better World (Denmark), Incendies (Canada), Outside the Law (Algeria)

Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, Toy Story 3

Original Score: 127 Hours, How to Train Your Dragon, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Social Network

Original Song: Coming Home (Country Strong), I See the Light (Tangled), If I Rise (127 Hours), We Belong Together (Toy Story 3)

Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Inception, The King’s Speech, True Grit

Cinematography: Black Swan, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, True Grit

Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland, I Am Love, The King’s Speech, The Tempest, True Grit

Makeup: Barney’s Version, The Way Back, The Wolfman

Documentary Feature: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Gasland, Inside Job, Restrepo, Waste Land

Sound Mixing: Inception, Salt, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, True Grit

Sound Editing: Inception, Toy Story 3, Tron: Legacy, True Grit, Unstoppable

Visual Effects: Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Hereafter, Inception, Iron Man 2

Film Editing: 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, The Social Network

Short Film, Animated: Day & Night (Teddy Newton), Let’s Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe), Madagascar: a Journey Diary (Bastien Dubois), The Gruffalo (Jakob Schuh and Max Lang), The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann)

Short Film, Live Action: God of Love (Luke Matheny), Na Wewe (Ivan Goldschmidt), The Confession (Tanel Toom), The Crush (Michael Creagh), Wish 143 (Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite)

Documentary Short Subject: Killing in the Name, Poster Girl, Strangers No More, Sun Come Up, The Warriors of Qiugang

[Echolilia]

I offer no opinion?

[Boltor]

No idea as I haven't seen most of these, but here's my random guesses
Inception, Tom Hooper, Jesse Eisenberg, Annette Bening, Geoffrey Rush, Amy Adams, Inception, Toy Story 3, Dogtooth, Toy Story 3, Inception, We Belong Together (Toy Story 3), Inception, Inception, True Grit, The Wolfman, Inside Job, Inception, Inception, Inception, The Social Network, The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann), The Confession (Tanel Toom),Killing in the Name

I liked Inception and I hope it wins!!!

[Echolilia]

The Social Network will seem silly when Facebook is dead and gone a few years from now.

[Boltor]

I hope facebook dies

[La Vida De Sangre]

That was ... violent. >.>

[Echolilia]

It's already on its way out, Boltor. Just a matter of time.

[La Vida De Sangre]

So... who won?

[Echolilia]

[Echolilia]

[Boltor]

So who won 1000 ??

[La Vida De Sangre]

The smiley face, apparently.

[Echolilia]

[La Vida De Sangre]

[Boltor]

[Echolilia]

[Boltor]

[La Vida De Sangre]

Not another emoticon thread.

[Boltor]

I want 1000 !

[Echolilia]

Yes, another emoticon thread!

[La Vida De Sangre]

[Echolilia]

[La Vida De Sangre]

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[Echolilia]

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[La Vida De Sangre]

(*・_・)ノ⌒*

[Boltor]

Did anyone win?

[Tsim Sha Tsui]

You were the only person that entered, Boltor, so you win! Enjoy your tacos!

(And sorry for the delay... this thread was inactive for so long it didn't appear on "my most recent topics" alerts... and it dates to before I knew how to set up e-mail alerts.)

[Echolilia]

Boltor won!

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