Okay my good friends, dear readers, haters, and Oscar watchers our final No Guts, No Glory for the year. We’ve been doing this a long time. You remember the rules. Up to three and they have to be outlandish predictions, something that really isn’t being predicted to win. Predicting Meryl Streep to win in Best Actress really doesn’t qualify. Predicting...
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Deepest thanks to Rob Y for another spectacular job compiling and analyzing the final results of our 3rd annual Simulated Oscar Ballot. Running the numbers through the filter of an interesting what-if scenario, Rob notes that while Hugo takes third in the overall poll, if The Artist is completely removed from the list, Hugo wins. “Hugo and The Artist seem to share...
We’ve yet to crown our Homecoming Queen and King yet, but this is how many of us will remember the Oscar year that was. Eddie Murphy and Brett Ratner The first news of the Oscar year is usually who is going to host. After the disastrous combination of Anne Hathaway (who was pretty good, actually) and James Franco (whoa, dude, is that a camera?) no one knew exactly...
Thanks to Cinemascopian for the telecast rundown, as follows: Here is the the 84th Oscar telecast line-up. All times are PST: 5:30pm: Show starts, Billy Crystal’s opening number. 5:40: 1st award – Cinematography. 5:43: Art Direction. 5:52: Costume Design. 5:54: Makeup. 6:03: Foreign Language Film. 6:07: Supporting Actress. 6:20: Editing. 6:23: Sound Editing 6:26:...
ENTER OUR CONTEST Before we announce the prize for this year’s Oscar predictions contest, the winner of the Restored Godfather DVD or Blu-Ray is Brady, who runs http://screenday.wordpress.com/. But we’d like to give away one more, and we’ll give that one to Scott Nelson. Please send an email to awardsdaily@gmail.com to claim your prize. And if you...
It has all come down to this, my friends. It has been a wonderful season here in the Grizzly Maze. Our work is done. Nothing left but the last of the desperately hungry bears and you know, the end of the season. You can’t come here and do what I do. You will die up here. Either which way, and however things worked out, our unsinkable ship set sail in May when it...
“We’re thrilled to have him and he’ll be on the red carpet dressed as The Dictator…” says Brian Grazer. “I used her, she used me, but neither one cared… We were getting our share…” says Bob Seger, (Oscar) Night Moves The Academy seems to have recognized that it’s better off with Sacha Baron Cohen at the Oscars...
