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(Bringing this back around one more time with all the pertinent stuff for today. Think I'm settled on the points system.)
For the third-straight year it looks like we'll be using Picktainment's set-up for our annual Oscar pool. Some of you may still be members of the site from previous years, but if not, you have to first join up here. After you've done that, go ahead and go to In Contention's Oscar pool here and join the group. After that, you're all ready to make your picks, which you can do by clicking on the "edit my picks" link there.
Meanwhile, HitFix has you all squared away if you're looking for a printable Oscar ballot. You can download ours here and check off your picks to follow along on Oscar night. You can also join the site-wide Oscar pool here. There will be a separate prize for the winner there.
Lastly, Oscar predictions: mine, Guy's, Gerard's, Greg Ellwood's and my Oscar Talk colleague Anne Thompson's. See you in the live blog, which will kick off in a few hours.
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2011-2012 OSCAR NOMINATIONS
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Makeup
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects
Best Animated Feature Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
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February 18, 2012 at 10:52PM EST Reply to CommentSweet! You've saved me a couple of hours of Excel'ing a chart of my own. Thank you very much :)
Conor
February 22, 2012 at 5:43PM EST Reply to CommentI say weigh the categories equally, because if someone goes out to pick something else for a "locked" category and gets it right, he/she shouldn't be penalized for it. And somebody could get a lot of points on a category like Doc Feature that they just picked out of a hat.
By the way, have you decided on what the prizes will be?
Kristopher Tapley Grab bag of movie stuff.
February 22, 2012 at 5:48PM ESTSergiu37
February 22, 2012 at 5:45PM EST Reply to CommentI say that Best Picture should have the most points.
It should be about how important is that win and how much media coverage will get that win.
Monday everybody will talk about who got the best picture, best actor, director and so on. Almost nobody will write or talk about the shorts.
So in this spirit bragging about getting the best picture right should count more than getting a short or for that matter all the shorts.
HoustonRufus I tend to think the opposite of this. The bigger categories are the easiest to predict. There is traditionally very little coverage of the below the line categories. I think people who get those categories right should be rewarded more. And I say this as someone who fully expects to be way off on my picks for the shorts.
February 22, 2012 at 6:05PM ESTSergiu37 Well if they are so easy everybody will get maximum points from them and still those harder to get will be the decisive.
February 22, 2012 at 6:17PM ESTOn the other hand if you miss one category that supposed to be easy you should lose many points. And that doesn't happen if there is 1 point for the easy ones.
It should be something like 1 point if you get it, -3 if you are wrong. But that isn't possible from what I've seen.
HoustonRufus
February 22, 2012 at 6:02PM EST Reply to CommentJust made mine! When is the deadline for editing our picks?
Kelly Garrett
February 22, 2012 at 6:33PM EST Reply to CommentI think 1 point each for: Picture, Director, Supporting Actor & Actress, Score, Animation, Song
2 points each for Actor & Actress, both Screenplays, Animated Short, Editing, Visual, both Sound categories, Doc Short, & Art Direction
3 points each for Costume, Cinematography, Documentary, Live-Action Short
Voland
February 22, 2012 at 6:58PM EST Reply to Comment1 point for every category obviously is the safest choice.
JVaughn
February 22, 2012 at 7:47PM EST Reply to CommentHey Kris - Any idea when you will have your final predictions posted? You are my go to guy for the office Oscar Pool among others. I have tracked the top predictors for nearly a decade and you have among the top three scores with an average of 17.6 since 2004. Thanks!
Voland Doesn't sound like fun.
February 22, 2012 at 8:02PM ESTKristopher Tapley Friday
February 22, 2012 at 8:21PM ESTJVaughn Excellent. Thanks. And Voland, a geek and his spreadsheet are hard to separate. I actually enjoy it and I've won many an Oscar pool over the years with it.
February 23, 2012 at 4:27PM ESTJorge
February 22, 2012 at 8:53PM EST Reply to CommentKris: Thanks for running this again. Perhaps a plausible solution is to have two winners? One who gets the most right, and one who gets the most on the weighed system, with the "easy" ones getting 1 point, the medium ones 3, and the hard ones 5?
I mean, if you want to get really creative I'd give out points for picking upsets. So, if you pick Viola and Viola wins, you get 1 point. If you pick Meryl, and she wins, 2, if you pick Rooney Mara and she wins, 5. Etc. But that may be too hard to implement and too much work :)
Kristopher Tapley That's all more detailed than we're capable of with this system, unfortunately.
February 22, 2012 at 10:10PM ESTJeremy
February 22, 2012 at 10:09PM EST Reply to CommentAll I care about is weighting the shorts as little as possible. I understand that they're worthy categories, but very few people have seen them, and it's incredibly difficult to handicap a field in which you've seen none of the nominees.