{"id":2916,"date":"2008-02-24T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2008-02-24T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T17:29:52","slug":"id-like-to-thank-the-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"I’d like to thank the Academy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

For whatever it’s worth, here are my picks for some of the big winners at tonight’s Oscars. I think, like always, this is a combination of what I think should win and what I think will win. Anyway, here they are:
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Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
\nBest Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
\nBest Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
\nBest Actress: Laura Linney in The Savages
\nBest Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
\nBest Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There
\nBest Original Screenplay: Juno
\nBest Adapted Screenplay: Atonement
\nCostume Design: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
\nOriginal Score: Atonement
\nOriginal Song: “Falling Slowly” — Once
\nBest Makeup: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
\nBest Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
\nBest Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille
\nBest Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters — Austria
\nBest Documentary Feature: No End in Sight<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I make no claims to be any good at this — my skills as a prognosticator are reliably fallible — but we shall see.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking about maybe live-blogging the show — I’ve never live-blogged anything, that I can remember — but that mean I’d actually have to watch<\/i> the show.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For whatever it’s worth, here are my picks for some of the big winners at tonight’s Oscars. I think, like always, this is a combination of what I think should win and what I think will win. Anyway, here they are: Best Picture: No Country for Old Men Best Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}