Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part Three: The “Other” Awards

Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part Three: The “Other” Awards

For those of you who go to the best Oscar parties or enter the toughest prediction contests, you may have to pick from some of the categories filled with more obscure titles like “Best International Feature” or “Best Live Action Short Film.” I’ve got you. These are the categories where the films are almost always (but, as you will see, not always always) excluded from the feature film categories. They don’t necessarily go together except that they are the “other” categories. But either you need to know them to make your picks or you need to know that I really do know what I’m talking about. Either way, here we go. I’ll do these in order from the most likely for you to have seen them to, “Why do they have a category for these?”

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Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part Two: The Technical Awards

Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part Two: The Technical Awards

We’re back with our second set of Oscar predictions. Today, we’re focusing on all of those awards people typically go to the bathroom during–the technical awards. These are the awards for the unsung heroes of the movie: those who shape the look, sound, and feel of what you’re watching through lighting, editing, set design, and so on. So, these folks are essential to the art of filmmaking and thus are rightly recognized on Oscar night. If you are making a full set of predictions, you don’t need to know about these crafts, but you need to know who Oscar will think is the best at them this year.

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Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part One: The Major Awards

Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part One: The Major Awards

So it’s Academy Awards week. For a lot of us film nerds, it’s like our Super Bowl Sunday (although the nerdiest of film nerds are too cool for something so commercial as the Oscars). And, while most of you will be filling out March Madness brackets on Sunday, some of you may be participating in an Oscar pool. That’s where I come in. Over the next few days, I will be giving you my bet-the-house Oscar predictions in every category (PLEASE do not bet the house–this really is one of the most unpredictable Oscars in a long time). Feel free to steal them for yourself and dominate your Oscar pool.

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