As many of you probably know - and it makes me mad that I forgot to mention this in class, too many things in my head! - the 83rd Oscars are slightly over two days away, as the glamorous ceremony will be held this Sunday evening in L.A. , hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco.
You may also remember that Javier Bardem is nominated again, this time for the top notch award of best leading actor, no less. Yet, he doesn't seem to stand many chances - nor does Biutiful in the Foreign Language Film category - since King's Speech star Colin Firth is the odds-on favourite in all bets. It remains to be seen how many accolades the box-office hit, critically acclaimed British flick will scoop, apparently quite a few on paper ...
Anyway, I've just watched this interesting feature called "The Road to the Oscars", which I'm embedding down below courtesy of the official web oscar.go.com and I urge you to visit if only to see a wealth of film clips in original version.
I was wondering if you would also like to enter a small competition, just for the sake of fun, you know, though I can spice it up with an enticing prize, maybe a DVD or something, like I did foe the Christmas quiz, remember? The thing is that, why not, I'll email you a printable ballot containing the 24 main categories so that you can play the prediction game and see how many winners you guess right, right?
Then you would send me a message by Sunday evening - a word document, say - with your own choices, and we'll see who was more accurate in their predictions, right? Let me just say I'll be recording the ceremony live on Pro7, the German TV channel - as I've been doing for the last 6/7 years - so that you'll be able to see it too when I edit the stuff.
Fair enough, to whet your "Oscar appetite", here's the short feature I told you about at the beginning of this entry. I just loved listening to British director Kenneth Brannagh, an Oscar nominee himself in the past, with his precise, elegant English accent, appraising this year's nominees in the live action short film category. Will you hear the piece too?
