[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
The Academy Awards are this Sunday night, which means it’s time for the 11th 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. Last year featured a three-way tie.)
The deadline to enter the Oscar Pool is Sunday at 5:00 PM Mountain Time.
And then, of course, you’ll want to come back here for SNARKNADO 2015, a.k.a. Becky’s and my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark, starting at 6:00 PM MST 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. The Snarknado will start at (or around) 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!!!