It’s Oscar Pool time!

All right, kids… the Academy Awards are this Sunday, so it’s that time of year again… the 7th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool is underway!!

Complete rules are at the entry page. The deadline to enter is Sunday at 5:30 PM Mountain Time. The pool is, of course, free. The prize? Eternal glory!

As always, contestants are urged to enter using their full name, or alternatively, a Twitter handle, partial name or nickname/pseudonym that is meaningfully identifiable to me and this blog’s community of readers. After all, what’s the point of “bragging rights” if we don’t know who you are?

The scoring system is slightly different this year, though it still adds up to 80 points. It’s this: 12 points for Best Picture, 9 apiece for the directing and lead acting categories, 6 each for the supporting acting categories, 4 each for the screenplay categories, 2 each for documentary feature, animated feature, foreign film, cinematography and original score, and 1 per award for everything else.

I can’t absolutely promise a liveblog and live, real-time results this year, as the Oscars are Sunday night and I’ve got major work stuff happening Monday morning. But I’ll do my best. For now, tentatively pencil in The Living Room Times as your Oscar-night live-blogging destination. 🙂 And regardless, get in the pool!

UPDATE: Yes, Virginia, there is a liveblog!!!

P.S. Some Oscar-prediction resources:
• Roger Ebert’s predictions for every category
• GoldDerby summary of experts’ predictions
• Doc’s Sports Oscars odds
• EasyOdds Oscars betting
• MovieGamut.com blog/odds