Oscar Contest!
In the spirit of the Academy Awards this coming Sunday evening (February 25th, 2007), XNations is giving
$100 to the webmaster who can correctly predict the number of Oscar winners! Look at the list below, and make your choices in this thread. There are 20 categories.
Best Actor
(1) Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
(2) Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
(3) Peter O'Toole (Venus)
(4) Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness)
(5) Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Supporting Actor
(1) Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
(2) Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)
(3) Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond)
(4) Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)
(5) Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
Best Actress
(1) Penelope Cruz (Volver)
(2) Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal)
(3) Helen Mirren (The Queen)
(4) Meryl Streep (The Devil wears Prada)
(5) Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Best Supporting Actress
(1) Adriana Barraza (Babel)
(2) Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal)
(3) Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
(4) Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
(5) Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
Animated Feature Film
(1) Cars
(2) Happy Feet
(3) Monster House
Art Direction
(1) Dream Girls
(2) The Good Shepherd
(3) Pan's Labyrinth
(4) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
(5) The Prestige
Cinematography
(1) The Black Dahlia
(2) Children of Men
(3) The Illusionist
(4) Pan's Labyrinth
(5) The Prestige
Costume Design
(1) Curse of the Golden FLower
(2) The Devil wears Prada
(3) Dreamgirls
(4) Marie Antoinette
(5) The Queen
Documentary Feature
(1) Deliver us from Evil
(2) An Inconvenient Truth
(3) Iraq in Fragments
(4) Jesus Camp
(5) My Country, My Country
Documentary Short
(1) The Blood of Yingzhou District
(2) Recycled Life
(3) Rehearsing a Dream
(4) Two Hands
Film Editing
(1) Babel
(2) Blood Diamond
(3) Children of Men
(4) The Departed
(5) United 93
Foreign Language Film
(1) After the Wedding
(2) Days of Glory (Indigenes)
(3) The Lives of Others
(4) Pan's Labyrinth
(5) Water
Makeup
(1) Apocalypto
(2) Click
(3) Pan's Labyrinth
Music (Score)
(1) Babel
(2) The Good German
(3) Notes of a Scandal
(4) Pan's Labyrinth
(5) The Queen
Music (Song)
(1) An Inconvenient Truth (I need to wake up)
(2) Dreamgirls (Listen)
(3) Dreamgirls (Love you I do)
(4) Cars (Our Town)
(5) Dreamgirls (Patience)
Sound Editing
(1) Apocalypto
(2) Blood Diamond
(3) Flags of our Fathers
(4) Letters from Iwo Jima
(5) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Sound Mixing
(1) Apocalypto
(2) Blood Diamond
(3) Dreamgirls
(4) Flags of our Fathers
(5) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Writing (Original Screenplay)
(1) Babel
(2) Letters from Iwo Jima
(3) Little Miss Sunshine
(4) Pan's Labyrinth
(5) The Queen
Directing
(1) Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
(2) The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
(3) Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
(4) The Queen (Stephen Frears)
(5) United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Best Picture
(1) Babel
(2) The Departed
(3) Letters from Iwo Jima
(4) Little Miss Sunshine
(5) The Queen
Copy and paste the following into your reply, and then add your choice to the end of each line.
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Best Actor:
Best Supporting Actor:
Best Actress:
Best Supporting Actress:
Animated Feature Film:
Art Direction:
Cinematography:
Costume Design:
Documentary Feature:
Documentary Short:
Film Editing:
Foreign Language Film:
Makeup:
Music (Score):
Music (Song):
Sound Editing:
Sound Mixing:
Writing (Original Screenplay):
Directing:
Best Picture:
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Good luck!
Eligible webmasters must have been registered at XNations no later than February 1st, 2007 and have a minimum of 100 postcount. You can only guess once of course. Final guesses must be made by 8pm eastern, on Sunday February 25th. At that time, this thread will be locked. Final adjudication is by the admin of XNations. If I have forgotten anything, I can make a change as I go. Above all, no whining. 
In case of a tie, the winnings will be split. Moderators are eligible, however Administrators of XNations are not eligible. (ie... just FB and I cannot play)
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