[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
The Oscars are this Sunday, which means it’s time for the 10th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool!
The pool is free to enter. As always, there’s no monetary prize – just a shot at bragging rights and, well, you know.
(Here is the list of past winners. @gswoods is the defending champ. Vicki Lopez is the legendary perennial bridesmaid.)
The deadline to enter the Oscar Pool is Sunday at 5:30 PM Mountain Time.
And then, of course, you’ll want to come back here for Becky’s and my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark Sunday night, during which we’ll mock the show mercilessly and discuss the live Oscar Pool results (with one or two inevitable results-spreadsheet meltdown #PANICs as an added bonus). The live-chat has a reputation of being at least as entertaining as the actual show, if not moreso, so you don’t want to miss it. It will start at 6:00 PM Sunday. Bookmark this Tumblr and check back then!
But back to the pool. As in previous years, the scoring system is 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.
As always, contestants are urged to enter using their full name, a Twitter handle, or some other readily recognizable partial name or nickname/pseudonym. (After all, what’s the point of “bragging rights” – never mind “eternal glory” – if we don’t know who you are?)
Anyway, get in the pool!!!