The 2013 Movie Forums Oscar Picks Pool

Most of you have probably already noticed, but last week we officially launched our Oscar Picks Pool. It's the fourth year running, so most of you know the deal already. Just figured I'd toss a thread up to go with the annoying box exhorting you to participate on the forum home page.

Same deal as last year: all registered users can dive right in and make their picks. Non-registered users just need to enter and confirm an email address, and they're good to go. You can update your picks any time up until the ceremony starts on February 24th, and it's all free and low-key, so don't worry if you're just guessing. If you learn more about the favorites later you can always come back and update them, and if not, it's still fun.

As a small bonus, we'll send a Blu-ray or DVD of any of the nine Best Picture nominees to whoever finishes with the highest score. Ties will be broken based on whoever submitted their final list earliest. And we reserve the right to reject entries based on collusion. Or if we just don't like you.

So that's that! Make your Oscar picks! The more people who make picks, the more fun it is, because I post real-time stats on the results of each category in the Oscar Chat, which, yes, we'll be holding again, for the sixth consecutive year.

I remember being annoyed that I missed making my picks last year, defo gonna do it this year.

Well done, thank you.

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We are both the source of the problem and the solution, yet we do not see ourselves in this light...

At some point I'll have to give badges or something to everyone who's done it.

Or maybe shame badges for people who don't.

I've just clicked Lincoln for each one it was nominated for. It's the only one out of all the Noms that I've seen.
If Lincoln isn't nominated I just went for Les Mis.

I voted Prometheus for Visual Effects though.

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I'll be making some picks.

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges.



Actually, I could go for some stinkin' badges.

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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

I'm going to try and do some research this year. It's always the documentaries, short films (live and animated), foreign film, and sound and visual awards that throw everything for a loop.

You know, I'm not the biggest fan of the Oscars but I like the season here at Movie Forums. It actually makes me like and care for the Oscars just a bit more, and I think that is largely due to the members here on the forum and what Yoda does for the awards show.

^^Me too,^^

We all know Satan killed the Oscars back in the 90's, but I do, at least, sit and pray over its corpse here, with you good people, on Oscar night.

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5-time MoFo Award winner.

I usually end up in the top 5 with my picks, never been #1 though.

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Suspect's Reviews

Yup; in 2010 you tied for third. In 2011 you tied for fourth. And in 2012 you tied for fourth again. Two off the lead the first time, and three off the other two times.

If I remember I was pretty close to winning last time, hopefully this year I can go one better.

Yup, you were only two off the lead, 17 of 24.

Yeah, same. They're way, way more fun for me because of the chat. Stressful, too, sometimes, since I've got lots of things to worry about now. But I enjoy them far, far more than I used to thanks to the picks and the chat and everyone's running commentary. It's probably tripled my general interest in the Oscars.

I suck at this stupid game. And yet, I will do the picks, again.

Has anyone here ever picked everything perfectly?

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Nope.

Can't we just get a badge instead?

We can maybe negotiate something else, sure. I've actually been thinking of some stuff like that, anyway.