Saturday, March 13, 2010

Coming Distractions & Oscar Contest Review

New Movies March 16th, 2010:

Broken Embraces: Director Pedro Almodovar revisits and reshoots some scenes and themes from his earlier films.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: John Krasinski took the money from the pilot episode of The Office and bought the rights to this collection of stories by David Foster Wallace.

Armored
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
The Fourth Kind
Ninja Assassin
The Princess and the Frog
Astro Boy
Wonderful World
Breaking Bad - 2nd Season
South Park - 13th Season


This year our Oscar contest resulted in an unprecedented 7-way tie and our winner by lottery is Earl Wright, so congratulations to all 7 of our customers who correctly predicted 14 out of 24 Academy Award Winners!


Let's see how the rest of us did. Winners are bolded and red:

Best Picture

Avatar - 63%
The Blind Side - 0%
District 9 - 0%
An Education - 0%
The Hurt Locker - 16%
Inglourious Basterds - 5%
Precious - 10%
A Serious Man - 3%
Up - 0%
Up in the Air - 3%

Director

Avatar - 39%
The Hurt Locker - 45% - congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow - our first ever female best director!
Inglourious Basterds - 3%
Precious - 10%
Up in the Air - 3%


Leading Actor

Jeff Bridges - 63%
George Clooney - 13%
Colin Firth - 8%
Morgan Freeman - 8%
Jeremy Renner - 8%





Leading Actress

Sandra Bullock - 29%
Helen Mirren - 5%
Carey Mulligan - 13%
Gabourey Sidibe - 24%
Meryl Streep - 29%




Supporting Actor

Matt Damon - 8%
Woody Harrelson - 21%
Christopher Plummer - 16%
Stanley Tucci - 0%
Christoph Waltz - 55%





Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz - 0%
Vera Formiga - 0%
Maggie Gyllenhaal - 21%
Anna Kendrick - 3%
Mo'Nique - 76%




Animated Feature

Coraline - 8%
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 18%
The Princess and the Frog - 3%
The Secret of Kells - 3%
Up - 68%

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