I’ve very, very late to this… so late that it’s already Oscar Day on the East Coast… but it’s time to (quickly!) sign up for the 8th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool!
Frankly, I completely forgot until late in the week that this was coming up, and then I was too busy to get it set up, until tonight. I had almost given up on doing a pool at all… until I started getting Twitter and Facebook inquiries… and then Becky convinced me that “you can’t just not have an Oscar Pool!”
Anyway, the deadline to enter is Sunday at 5:30 PM Mountain Time. Entering the pool is, of course, free. The prize, as per usual: eternal glory!
As always, contestants are urged to enter using their full name, or alternatively, a Twitter handle, or other readily recognizable partial name or nickname/pseudonym. After all, what’s the point of “bragging rights” if I don’t know who you are?
The scoring system, once again, is 12 points for Best Picture, 9 apiece for the directing and lead acting categories, 6 each for the supporting acting categories, 4 each for the screenplay categories, 2 each for documentary feature, animated feature, foreign film, cinematography and original score, and 1 per award for everything else.
I’m unlikely to do a “liveblog” this year [LIVE CHAT HERE!], but if nothing else I will post results here next week. So: get in the pool!
P.S. Some Oscar-prediction resources:
• Roger Ebert’s predictions
• GoldDerby summary of experts’ predictions
• Doc’s Sports Oscars odds
• EasyOdds Oscars betting