Contest: Name Those Nominees
Months of pointless speculation will come to an end on the morning of Tuesday, January 22nd when the nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards are finally announced. This will kick off another month of wishing and hoping and thinking and praying before the awards are finally handed out on February 24th.
32 seconds later, the speculation will begin anew.
Unless your last name is Day-Lewis or Coen, your odds of getting a nomination are pretty sketchy, but luckily you can still be a part of the fun by playing the 1st Annual Living in Cinema Name Those Nominees contest.
Read the complete rules after the jump…
The rules are simple. Pick five nominees in each of the following categories:
- Picture
- Director
- Actor
- Actress
- Supporting Actor
- Supporting Actress
- Original Screenplay
- Adapted Screenplay
- Cinematography
You’ll notice I left off a bunch of categories in the interest of simplifying the contest for you and for me. Also, the Documentary and Foreign Language categories are a joke so I’m boycotting them in protest.
The line between the Lead and Supporting acting categories is always a little fuzzy and seems particularly so this year. You’ll just have to make your best guesses who will qualify for which category knowing that everyone is at the same disadvantage. Since some actors have appeared in more than one movie, be sure to list their name in addition to the movie you’re nominating them for. For the Screenplay and Cinematography categories, feel free to simply name the movie.
I encourage you to use whatever resources you can find to help you make your picks including the Living in Cinema Awards Tally which has been updated to include most of the guild nominations. As of this writing, the chart does NOT include the Golden Globe winners or the British Film and Television Arts nominees. The nominees for the Art Directors Guild, the Cinema Audio Society and the Visual Effects Society are also excluded, but I’m sure you’ll manage.
Once you’ve made your 5 selections in each category, email your nominees before 12:00pm PST (-8 GMT) Monday, January 21st to:
contest@livingincinema.com
If you do not receive an email confirmation within 24 hours, your entry may not have been received so please resubmit. Also, please include your name or a chosen nickname so we can publish the winners. All email addresses will be kept private.
If you absolutely do not want to reveal your email even to my supremely trustworthy eyes, you can submit your picks in the comments section, but I cannot guarantee I will see them. If I don’t see them, they won’t count.
After the official nominations are announced, our crack team of math nerds (plus one slightly used monkey) will carefully scrutinize each entry and whoever matches the most nominees will be renowned far and wide as a Living in Cinema Oscar Nominee Smartypants. Ties will be broken via Jell-O™ wrestling cage match: all tied contestants enter, only one walks away. In the event that a Jell-O™ wrestling cage match cannot be organized, ties will be broken by the order in which entries are received so get your nominees in as soon as you can.
Good luck everybody.
Dammit. I promised myself I wouldn’t participate in all this awards hoopla except for predicting winners once the nominations are known, but this sounds like fun. I’ll send you my picks either today or tomorrow.
Heh, yeah Hedwig, I think we all kind of resolved ourselves not to play that game here and yet the comments section keeps exploding with awards commentary. I am as guilty or more guilty than anyone else of saying I wouldn’t and then giving in to it.
It’s a disease. But it’s an entertaining disease.
I try to stay out of the muck too Hedwig, so imagine how embarrassed I am at stiring it up!
In my defense A) January is a piss poor time for movies in the US and B) my two favorite films of the year have a real shot at a nomination for the first time in…probably ever.
The trick is to remember that it actually doesn’t mean anything.
Anyway, in the words of Ellis in No Country for Old Men: You can’t stop what’s comin’.
craig….other phrases from your beloved no country are as apt
what about the until the mess gets here line(sorry i know that’s not the exact quote)
and sorry you no country fans are lazy. there’s plenty of quotable stuff in there an all you do is run with the same one/two.
seriously craig/no country fans. if you were alone in room with anton c.
. ‘why does evryone always quote the same line.they always say that.
and then he’d kill you. happy ????? :)
really craig you better not put that lucky quarter in your pocket and mix it with your other coins. ;)
i have a bad feeling about the nom annoucement (and yes that was said carla jean style) but i’m sure you no country/twbb fans have a good feeling about it.so it should even out.
but to me my feeling about this years awards (unless lars and and real girl wins *every* category)
with this snippet of conversion
‘that’s a dead dog’
‘yes,yes it is’
:)
yeah, you can’t stop what’s coming.like another post from me saying when will this no country madness end ???
how much misery can one get geek/reading the 5000 yay no country article this month…a big mistake.
really i don’t care if the blotched the quotes whatever.
why does everyone only use the ‘you can’t stop’ quote ???
was there a vote held or something ???????????????
if anyone disagrees with me.i’m going to have to take you to back and screw you.
but i’m sure you think i don’t know what i’m talking about….
Glimmer did you just bust me for being a broken record? Damnit! Don’t make me blacklist you!
(I kid)
actually craig i wonder if you got the steel cage for the jello wrestling cage match from ‘the getting place’
craig, i’ve been surrounded by guys that quote from the movie.pretty much evry line. so i’ve gotten pretty good at it. ha ha……
As a guy who didn’t like the movie…you must be miserable.
actually craig,it’s been helpful to me.(not enough to change my opinion of the movie) it’s obvious i missed alot of humor in the movie.
because….
‘that’s a dead dog’
yes,yes it is’
didn’t srtike me as humorous within the context of the film/in the theatre.
but i thought it was hilarious when sneaked into quote from no country session 3000 or sneaked into a normal conversation. hmm…
plus craig maybe it’s about making some good from the bad.if i have to endure no country mania. i’m going down laughing. ha ha…..
plus enough time has passed that i’m not as annoyed or scared. really craig i was pretty scared when i walked from the bus stop those several blocks(hey it’s nighttime) to get here(in front of the computer) it was it was just me and quiet of the streets and i thought an anton c. type could be behind a truck….
i guess i’m less bothered because i’ve given up/ indie and mainstream has crowned no country.
but hey i never win this things anyway.i’ll adjust…..
What time does that deadline translate to for Aus readers, Craig. Maybe you can help me out with that.
I’m not 100% sure Andy, I THINK you’re 18 hours ahead of me so if my deadline is 12pm on the 21st, I think that would make it 6am on the 22nd for you.
Just to be safe though, try to get your entry in sooner. Also remember that tiebreakers will be decided by the order the entry is received so the faster you are, the better. No hurry though…I’m just saying…
The difference is 17 (east coast australia) to 19 hours (west coast australia).
I can’t remember…when Lindsay Lohan’s acting career is circling the drain in Australia, does it spin clockwise or counter-clockwise?
no circling/it’s straight like a line of cocaine. :)
I sent mine in (first to the wrong address). :-)
There is no difference in water drain behavior between North and South hemispheres, so sadly Lindsay’s career has only one direction to go no matter where she locates.
Ebert has posted his Oscar predictions if anyone is interested:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080118/OSCARS/856629608
The venerable Ebert isn’t offering too much that’s new – though he seems to have ignored the lack of guild love for Atonement. Isn’t the “There Will be…” framing of awards headlines becoming a little stale?
Of course that headline is old and stale. :-)
Also, he’s got Helena Bonham-Carter being nominated for supporting actress. I’m pretty sure she’s lead. She should be. Mrs. Lovett is most definitely a lead role, not a supporting role.
And plenty of love for Juno of course. He predicts double nominations in supporting, Garner and Janney. What am I missing about this movie? I’m not a Juno-hater. I really did enjoy it. But I don’t get how people are looking at it and immediately thinking “BP Oscar”. What am I missing?
I agree Alison, HB-C is without doubt a lead. I enjoyed her performance in Sweeney. Have you seen it yet?
Nope. Just didn’t get to it.
*hangs head*
Yet you saw The Orphanage instead? Why are you avoiding it Alison? What are you running away from? :-)
It’s a long story, sartre. ;-)
Dissolve to scene depicting the baby Alison being gently rocked in her cradle… Cue Alison’s narration ‘it all started…’
I just sent mine in, two days before closing, but better late than never. Hopefully I can actually SEE the films I have predicted before the awards are given out. If I do not, that will be such a shame.
I saw the first twenty minutes of Sweeney Todd just before I saw Juno, but I just have to see the film in its entirety ASAP, seriously.
At least TWBB and No Country open in two weeks time in SA, about time damn it! Then I could finally not feel like such an outsider when you guys and girls talk about them.
However, by then you would have all gotten over them, or not…I hope you never get over them, or at least until I can throw my two cents in the mix. All I do know is, “oh how sad it is to be on the outside looking inside”.
:-)
Nah, it’s not that bad. But I didn’t feel that I could view it objectively, and therefore felt that I would not be judging the film fairly. I’ll see it when I can.
Nick, not to worry. We know you live in a country that doesn’t exactly have accomodating release schedules. Feel free to talk about things whenever you’ve seen them. I don’t think any of us would forego a tasty discussion on ANYTHING.
Just state your opinion. Draw your line in the sand & we’ll all jump in.
For the record, I saw TWBB last night for the second time. THIS IS A LANDMARK.
There’s no getting over that one…
Serena, I thought I was the only chick around that loved this film. It’s gotten the label of being a “fanboy club” movie. I’m so glad I’m not alone.
It’s gotten the label unfairly, I should add.
I know a certain person who shall not be named finds every angle, including the gender one, to denigrate this film and those who admire it. But interestingly, at IMDB the 654 women who have rated the film give it an average score of 8.2/10 (the overall rating across men and women is 9/10). That suggests that women viewers also rate it highly and only slightly lower on average than men. Women rated Atonement on average at 8.5, only marginally higher than they did for TWbB.
I saw Atonement for a second time today and felt much more moved by it. I also appreciated the score more the second tie. It’s jumped a place or two on my top 10, and my sense of the injustice of no BP nom for Atonement (if this occurs) has heigthened.
I have two sets of Oscar predix:
Atonement “snub” and
Atonement “miracle”
Think I’ll go with the “snub” angle, despite that nagging feeling.
The denigration of the film is getting very, very old. I appreciate that feedback, sartre.
Atonement has been very underrated. It’s not just the early hype either that has hurt it. I haven’t read the whole book yet, but I just started it; and from the little I’ve read I can see how difficult it must have been to adapt it to screen. It seems to me that they’ve done an incredible job. The people who knock it do so for one of two reasons: 1) the book had “A”, “B” and “C”, but the movie didn’t (an unfair comparison, of course, but readers of the book had expectations); or 2) it wasn’t the sweeping romance they expected it to be; it was about something else.
I loved Atonement. And I plan to see it a second time. I’m sure I’ll get even more out of it.
The entire cast has been underrated. Ronan has gotten some attention, and she deserves it. She’s terrific. In fact I’m looking forward to seeing her next film, “The Lovely Bones”. However, the rest of the main cast – McAvoy, Knightley, Garai – was also wonderful. The ensemble work was spot on, and I found each of the individual performances to be moving and skillful as well.
LOL, Pierre. I’m going with the Atonement miracle. As a Sultan of Bling I have it in my predictions. At #2 after No Country for Old Men. :-)
Well Alison, it’s either your funeral — or mine. :-)
To say that TWBB is only a fanboy movie is an insult to the good taste of women.
And that’s all I have to say about THAT.