The 2013 Movie Forums Oscar Picks Pool

Bump!

We've already got two-thirds as many people as last year, with four weeks left to go. Great pace! If you haven't made your picks yet, do it now! I'm just going to keep bugging you until you do. I'm even gonna bust out some big overlay on the home page.

You gotta see this.

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The Freedom Roads

I didn't...

Six more days to get your picks in, people! We're pretty close to topping our 2011 record for submissions, too.

Hattrick time!

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If I had a dollar for every existential crisis I've ever had, does money really even matter?

Changed some of my picks to make them a bit more realistic. At first I had a few votes going toward who I wanted to win, now switched to whom I think will win.

I participated because Yoda asked me and because he clearly put in some hard work once again.

Did I participate in last year's?

Yep. And you tied for third.

I'm going all the way this year, I feels it in me bones. I even made half-informed guesses in the shorts/docs categories this year, rather than just blindly guessing.

I've done the same with shorts/docs even though I haven't seen them, this is the first proper year where I've paid attention and should be watching the Oscars and I'm looking forward to it

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Cool, we'll see you in the chat then? It was lots of fun last year.

Probably/hopefully, how do I access that then? And seeing as you are a UK member, how are you planning on watching the Oscars? I've seen they've got a program on tonight on Sky Movies but I'm not sure if it'll actually cover the event and awards, PM me if you want cheers

I think the 20/24 mark is going to be way more difficult than the past few years.

the technical awards seem a bit more difficult to predict this year.

Oh nice,in my country the Oscar ceremony starts at 3AM.

Guess I'll have to win this year. Oscars start at like 2am here, but even if they started at 8pm, I'd rather watch paint dry

Not too long before the pool closes, everyone. Get those picks--or any panicky last-minute changes--in soon!

Well done to those who got 19 right!

To those who couldn't make the chat, IrishSansRed ended up taking the win, tying the all-time pool record of 20 of 24. The leaderboard shows a tie with 19, but that's because of the tie (the first in over 40 years) in the Best Sound Editing category. Needless to say, the picks system wasn't setup for such an unusual occurrence, so anyone who picked Skyfall (as Irish did) actually got one more correct than is listed. I'll have to rework that for next year, even though it'll probably never happen again.

Congrats to Irish for the big one, and to all the other leaders. And a special shout out to Fiscal, who won this thing each of the last two years and came one away from tying for the win again this year. Very impressive!

Darn, shame on me. It sounds like a lie, but I did change from Brave to Wreck it Ralph. Still, would have been one or two away.