NOMINEE PREDICTIONS

Oscar, you are testing my patience!

The Academy continues its recent streak of befuddling stunts for the sake of “excitement” which they hope to parlay into better ratings for the telecast.  First it was the expanded Best Picture category.  This year their website did not list a date for the nominations announcement – promising only the third week in January – and then bam!  At the last minute they announced the nominations would be revealed on the second Thursday of the month.  Edgy!  What’s next?  They’ll read the nominees on live television…in reverse alphabetical order?

Because of their stupid little game, what follows is the best column I could slap together in one night (grumble, grumble.)

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This year’s races are kind of bumming me out, because they are loaded with former winners, and there will be hardly any first-time nominees.  The Golden Globes lavished nominations on Semen Fishing in the Yalmon and Old White Ladies in India.  Judi Dench and Maggie Smith actually have TWO campaigns apiece.  Here’s to hoping the voting body makes more interesting choices than the Board of Directors.