My 3rd Annual Online Oscar Party!

Ok, kids, here's how it works. Below are listed Academy Award nominees. Mostly, they're are the major Academy Awards, but I added a few more to make it interesting and to make the math easier for me (ie. howevermany out of 10). Your job is to pick who you think will win, submit it to me via pennykarma at gmail by Noonish, Central Time on Sunday the 24th, and whomever gets the most correct will win a semi-fabulous prize.

And, because I know there are non-knitters among My Vast Readership (although I prefer to think of you as "not yet knitters"), I promise it will be a prize that can be appreciated by knitters and non-knitters alike.

Additionally, on Oscar Night, please submit a picture of yourself in your Red Carpet Finery, and I'll post them on my blog the next day, along with my Celebrity Red Carpet Snark that you all love so much. I won't make fun of you if you're brave enough to send me a picture. I'm actually quite nonconfrontational. I only bash the celebs because I know they probably won't call me out. Seriously, I'm a total pussy.

Anyway, best of luck to all, and don't forget to watch the Oscars on Sunday!!!

Best Picture:

Atonement

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

There Will Be Blood


Best Actor:

George Clooney
(Michael Clayton)

Johnny Depp
(Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)

Daniel Day-Lewis
(There Will Be Blood)

Tommy Lee Jones
(In the Valley of Elah)

Viggo Mortensen
(Eastern Promises)


Best 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)


Best Supporting Actor:

Casey Affleck
(The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)

Javier Bardem
(No Country for Old Men)

Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Charlie Wilson's War)

Hal Holbrook
(Into the Wild)

Tom Wilkinson
(Michael Clayton)


Best Supporting Actress:

Cate Blanchett
(I'm Not There)

Ruby Dee
(American Gangster)

Saoirse Ronan
(Atonement)

Amy Ryan
(Gone Baby Gone)

Tilda Swinton
(Michael Clayton)


Best Director:

Julian Schnabel
(The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Jason Reitman
(Juno)

Tony Gilroy
(Michael Clayton)

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
(No Country for Old Men)

Paul Thomas Anderson
(There Will Be Blood)


Costume Design:

Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street


Original Song:

"Falling Slowly" - Once
"Happy Working Song" - Enchanted
"Raise It Up" - August Rush
"So Close" - Enchanted
"That’s How You Know" - Enchanted


Foreign Language Film

Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyn
Mongol
12

Adapted Screenplay

Atonement
Away From Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood


Original Screenplay

Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages