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Holy crap, it’s Oscar time again. It’s no earlier than last year, but it certainly feels that way.

Before the picks, my usual disclaimer:

I don’t care who should win, I only care who will win.

I also find that I have better picks when I don’t see the nominated movies. My personal opinion can cloud my judgement when choosing winners. Case in point, having seen Les Miserables this year, I don’t think it deserves a damn thing. It’s taking a great deal of willpower to get past that. Fortunately I also think Argo is the best movie of the year (of the ones I’ve seen) so I have no issues there.

And yes, I take these things seriously. I don’t watch sports, I watch movies. The Academy Awards are my Super Bowl.

Let’s get to the picks.

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Good lord are the Oscars early this year. They keep moving it up, and it always seems to creep up on me.

Anyway…hi there! If you’ve never read my annual Oscar picks (previously posted on my now retired blog, and long before that on Blue’s News), I take the annual Academy Awards very seriously. No really. I don’t watch sports, I watch movies. Therefore to me (and I fully understand that this is just me), the Oscars are my Super Bowl.

When it comes to choosing the winners, my motivation is based on my traditional Oscar bet with my father, which we’ve been doing every year for over two decades. I used to win handily, but in the last ten years he’s really ramped up his research, which has made it both more difficult and more exciting.

We bet on more categories than most, but not all of them. So if you’re looking for the shorts or sound categories, you’ll need to look elsewhere. But we do cover everything else. Doing just the top six is much too easy. All the real fun happens when you get down into the crazy ones everyone forgets about, like Costume Design. 

In any event, my choices are based on who I believe will win, not who I believe should win. I don’t really care about who should win. I am only concerned with who will take home the statue. If the people who actually deserved Oscars regularly won, we would live in a world where Stanley Kubrick left behind a mantle full of golden statues (he never won for anything other than Visual Effects, for 2001).

And to be clear, I really do love the Oscars. They’re absurd. They’re crazy. They’re fun!

So let’s get to the picks.

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