[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
It’s that time of year again… and I’ve procrastinated until the last minute again… but the 14th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool is finally online and ready for your predictions!
The password is eternalglory – because, of course, this is your one chance to earn official, Living Room Times-certified ETERNAL GLORY in 2018.
The deadline to enter the pool is Sunday at 6:30 PM Mountain Time (8:30 Eastern, 5:30 Pacific), when the Oscars get underway.
If you entered my Oscar Pool in 2016 or 2017, you’ll be prompted to sign in to the pool website using the same username and password. (Don’t worry, there’s an forgot username/password page if you need it.)
The pool is, of course, free to enter. There’s no monetary prize – just a shot at bragging rights and, as mentioned earlier, ETERNAL GLORY!
The pool scoring system is the same as in prior years: 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.
As always, contestants are urged to enter using their full name, a
Twitter handle, or some other readily recognizable partial name or
nickname/pseudonym. (After all, what’s the point of “bragging rights” –
never mind “eternal glory” – if we don’t know who you are?)
Anyway, get in the pool!!! (Once more with feeling: the password is eternalglory.)
Also, you’ll want to come back here for SNARKNADO 2018, a.k.a. Becky’s and my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, during which we’ll mock the show and discuss the live Oscar Pool results. The Snarknado will start at (or around) 6:00 PM Mountain Time
Sunday. Bookmark this Tumblr and check back then!