Oscars

I’m holding an Oscar party in my mind. If I win, each of you owes me $10.

 Everyone is so convinced that Heath Ledger will win Best Supporting Actor posthumously that the online odds for him are 1-20 (for you non-gamblers this means that you have to put out $20 for each $1 you would get on a winning bet on Ledger).  The odds aren’t much better for Slumdog as Best Picture and Boyle as Best Director (1-10 and 1-6, respectively).    I’m holding out for longshots Leo (Best Actress) and Tomei (Best Supporting Actress).  Each is 15-1.  

 Jerry Lewis is getting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (proving you can call someone an “illiterate fag” and still be a nice guy).  10-1 on whether he holds up the Oscar and says “Don’t lick it!”

14 thoughts on “Oscars”

  2. No guts, no glory predictions???

    Winslet will lose (Streep will win for Prada and Mamma or maybe Leo will split the vote and confound everyone sitting on a couch).

    McDonagh will win his second Oscar.

    Ledger will appear as a hologram on CNN to accept his award being delivered on ABC.

  3. Most of my predictions would tediously follow expectations. I guess I think Viola Davis might grab the supporting actress; I think “New Boy” might win the live short (mainly because I saw it, and really liked it). Otherwise, meh.

  4. Don’t confuse me, Jeff. Streep for Prada? Here’s a bold prediction: Helen Mirren for The Queen.

    As Jerry walks out to receive his Oscar, he will touch his eye with his pinky. Trust me. Watch.

    Benjamin Button: visual effects (yes), makeup (no), short film (shoulda been).

    No jokes tonight? What’s the deal with that? The Oscars got Klass!

  5. goddamit, how is the make up in Benjamin Button better than the make-up in Hellboy II?? I think they just wanted to give a sop to the Big-Quality Bore that is going to get ignored in the major categories.

  7. best performance by someone who did not win his oscar pool: me.

    john, i thought of you as jerry was coming on stage. i imagined you had tears in your eyes. actually, i told everyone at our party that you definitely were sobbing like a baby at that moment. everyone was touched. then we made fun of you.

  11. Ok, I’ll bite. I wanted to include a creepy scene in which serious Jerry explains “incest” to baby Jerry. What can’t I do it? Why can’t I put a youtube video in here? Don’t I simply need to copy and paste the “embed” code into the box? what am I missing?

  12. when i tried to put a picture up some century ago it didn’t work either, even though the code was right. arnab did it for me. maybe you can ask one of the enabled to do it for you, michael.

  13. If it’s a YouTube video, you shouldn’t have any problem. Or, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem. You may need to paste the embed code twice. I don’t know why, but the second time is always the charm for me. So if it doesn’t show up the first time, click “edit comment” and try again.

    WhaHEYYYYYWHAHEEEWhooooooouyyy!!!

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