It's almost here! It's almost here! The 2012 Academy Awards is almost here! WHO ARE YOU WEARING? Between now and Sunday, who are you wearing? Each day a more special outfit until you show up at your friend's house in five million dollars worth of borrowed diamonds. HOW MAGNIFICENT everyone will exclaim. YOU ARE A VISION! Anyways, right, so, the Oscars are this Sunday. Cool. Very very cool. My prediction is that Adrien Brody surprises everyone and wins a Lifetime Achievement Award for Splice 2. This year, we are reintroducing the Videogum Oscar Pool. You should enter! The winner of the pool will receive a $100 gift card to the movie theater of their choice. Wow! To enter, simply post your Oscar Picks in the comments before the beginning of the Oscar broadcast on Sunday. Whoever has the most correct answers wins. (In the event that more than one person has the most correct answers, a winner will be selected at random.) Good luck!
Now in order to make things REALLY interesting, Kelly and I have both posted our Oscar Picks after the jump, and whoever LOSES our Oscar Pool will have to take one for the team. If Kelly loses, she has to take the New York Movie and TV Sites Tour and write about her experience. If I lose, I have to take the (much worse) TMZ Hollywood Tour and write about the experience. High stakes or THE HIGHEST STAKES?! Two blogs enter, one blog has a miserable afternoon on a bus with fools. Good luck to both of us, but more luck to me.
And, as always, please join us here on Sunday night where we will watch this most glorious of events TOGETHER LIKE A FAMILY FOR ONCE.
Gabe's Picks
Best Picture
The Artist
Best Actor
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Best Actress
Viola Davis, The Help
Best Supporting Actor
Max von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Best Supporting Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Best Director
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Best Original Screenplay
Midnight In Paris
Best Adapted Screenplay
Moneyball
Best Foreign Film
A Separation
Best Animated Film
Rango
Art Direction
War Horse
Cinematography
The Artist, Guillaume Schiffman
Costume Design
Hugo, Sandy Powell
Documentary (Feature)
Pina
Documentary (Short Subject)
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Film Editing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Makeup
The Iron Lady
Music (Original Score)
War Horse
Music (Original Song)
“Man or Muppet” from The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Short Film (Animated)
“Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon
Short Film (Live Action)
“The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George
Sound Editing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sound Mixing
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Kelly's Picks
Best Picture
The Artist
Best Actor
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Best Actress
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Best Director
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay
Midnight In Paris
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Best Foreign Film
A Separation
Best Animated Film
Rango
Art Direction
War Horse
Cinematography
The Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki
Costume Design
The Artist, Mark Bridges
Documentary (Feature)
Hell and Back Again
Documentary (Short Subject)
Incident in New Baghdad
Film Editing
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Makeup
Albert Nobbs
Music (Original Score)
The Artist
Music (Original Song)
“Man or Muppet” from The Muppets, Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
Short Film (Animated)
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Short Film (Live Action)
“Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Sound Editing
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Sound Mixing
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Visual Effects
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
