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[Darragh]

The Rllmuk Academy Awards Pool 2012

Yes, it's that time of year again - Oscar time! And with Oscar time comes this, the FOURTH annual Rllmuk Academy Awards Pool. Rather than bore you with any further introductory ramblings, here, for your perusal, are the rules:

General:

• The entry fee will be a £5 Amazon.co.uk voucher. The e-mail address to which this is to be sent will be PMd to each confirmed participant. I will then hold the list of codes (without spending them, of course!), which will be sent to the winner upon the completion of score-tallying.
• The deadline for submission of entry forms is 10pm on the 26th February. Entries received after this time will not be accepted.
• Entries are to be PMd to me, and cannot be altered once submitted.
• And don't worry, I will not, under any circumstances, open your PMs until the deadline has passed or my choices have been locked down. I will PM my own choices to whatever participant volunteers to receive them, just to allay any fears that I could try and alter my choices in my favour after the ceremony. [Update 21/2: lordcookie now has my picks!]

Scoring System:

• We will be utilising a weighted scoring system for the competiton. There are 24 awards to be given out on the night, which we will split into 3 groups of 8. The first group (the 'major' awards) will be worth 3 points. The second group (the 'secondary' awards) will be worth 2 points, and the final group (the rest) will be worth 1 point.
• The categories, nominees, and template for submission of voting forms can be found below.
• The winner will be announced on the day after the award ceremony, at the latest.

Prizes:

• The prize will be a series of Amazon vouchers, each with a value of £5. The more entrants we have, the more you can win, so encourage others to participate! Whether or not we will split up the prize pool, and how to split it, can be decided amongst the participants once the final number of entrants is confirmed.

Tie Breaker:
In the event of two people being equal on points at the end of the night, the winner will be decided based on points earned in the major four categories (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress). (Credit to lordcookie for this idea!)

Participants:

• Ben
• Darragh
• DeadRussian
• Exidor
• Fohat
• Goose
• grounded_dreams
• Hardwired
• jon_cybernet
• lordcookie

Underlined = Picks Submitted
Bold = Paid Up


I know there's a lot of rules, but we're dealing with people's money here, so I feel it's appropriate that we make it as fair as possible! And now...

The Nominees:

Group 1: 3 Points

1. Best Picture
A. The Artist
B. The Descendants
C. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
D. The Help
E. Hugo
F. Midnight in Paris
G. Moneyball
H. The Tree of Life
I. War Horse

2. Best Actor
A. Demián Bichir (A Better Life)
B. George Clooney (The Descendants)
C. Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
D. Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
E. Brad Pitt (Moneyball)

3. Best Actress
A. Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
B. Viola Davis (The Help)
C. Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
D. Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
E. Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)

4. Best Supporting Actor
A. Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
B. Jonah Hill (Moneyball)
C. Nick Nolte (Warrior)
D. Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
E. Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

5. Best Supporting Actress
A. Bérénice Bejo (The Artist)
B. Jessica Chastain (The Help)
C. Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
D. Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
E. Octavia Spencer (The Help)

6. Best Director
A. Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
B. Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
C. Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)
D. Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
E. Martin Scorsese (Hugo)

7. Best Original Screenplay
A. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
B. Bridesmaids (Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo)
C. Margin Call (J.C. Chandor)
D. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
E. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)

8. Best Adapted Screenplay
A. The Descendants (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash)
B. Hugo (John Logan)
C. The Ides of March (George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon)
D. Moneyball (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin)
E. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan)


Group 2: 2 Points

9. Best Cinematography
A. The Artist (Guillaume Schiffman)
B. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Jeff Cronenweth)
C. Hugo (Robert Richardson)
D. The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki)
E. War Horse (Janusz Kamiński)

10. Best Animated Feature
A. A Cat in Paris
B. Chico and Rita
C. Kung Fu Panda 2
D. Puss in Boots
E. Rango

11. Best Documentary Feature
A. Hell and Back Again
B. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
C. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
D. Pina
E. Undefeated

12. Best Short Film
A. Pentecost
B. Raju
C. The Shore
D. Time Freak
E. Tube Atlantic

13. Best Film Editing
A. The Artist (Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius)
B. The Descendants (Kevin Tent)
C. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter)
D. Hugo (Thelma Schoonmaker)
E. Moneyball (Christopher Tellefsen)

14. Best Visual Effects
A. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler & John Richardson)
B. Hugo (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman & Alex Henning)
C. Real Steel (Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor & Swen Gillberg)
D. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White & Daniel Barrett)
E. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler & John Frazier)

15. Best Original Score
A. The Adventures of Tintin (John Williams)
B. The Artist (Ludovic Bource)
C. Hugo (Howard Shore)
D. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alberto Iglesias)
E. War Horse (John Williams)

16. Best Foreign Language Film
A. Bullhead (Belgium)
B. Footnote (Israel)
C. In Darkness (Poland)
D. Monsieur Lazhar (Canada)
E. A Separation (Iran)


Group 3: 1 Point

17. Best Sound Editing
A. Drive (Lon Bender & Victor Ray Ennis)
B. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Ren Klyce)
C. Hugo (Philip Stockton & Eugene Gearty)
D. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Ethan Van der Ryn & Erik Aadahl)
E. War Horse (Richard Hymns & Gary Rydstrom)

18. Best Sound Mixing
A. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Bo Persson)
B. Hugo (Tom Fleischman & John Midgley)
C. Moneyball (Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco & Ed Novick)
D. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush & Peter J. Devlin)
E. War Horse (Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson & Stuart Wilson)

19. Best Original Song
A. "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" (Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie)
B. "Real in Rio" from "Rio" (Music by Sergio Mendes & Carlinhos Brown; Lyric by Siedah Garrett)

20. Best Makeup
A. Albert Nobbs (Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston & Matthew W. Mungle)
B. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight & Lisa Tomblin)
C. The Iron Lady (Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland)

21. Best Animated Short Film
A. Dimanche
B. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
C. La Luna
D. A Morning Stroll
E. Wild Life

22. Best Documentary - Short Subject
A. The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
B. God is the Bigger Elvis
C. Incident in New Baghdad
D. Saving Face
E. The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

23. Best Costume Design
A. Anonymous (Lisy Christl)
B. The Artist (Mark Bridges)
C. Hugo (Sandy Powell)
D. Jane Eyre (Michael O'Connor)
E. W.E. (Arianne Phillips)

24. Best Art Direction
A. The Artist (Laurence Bennett & Robert Gould)
B. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Stuart Craig & Stephanie McMillan)
C. Hugo (Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo)
D. Midnight in Paris (Anne Seibel & Hélène Dubreuil)
E. War Horse (Rick Carter & Lee Sandales)

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And there are your nominees!

Please submit your picks in a PM to me, using the following format:

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E

...and so on

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I think that pretty much wraps it up! Make a quick post here to confirm you're up for it, and you can go about sending the Amazon voucher and PMing me your picks in your own time (provided it's before the deadline!)

Hall of Champions
2009: Ghost
2010: Darragh
2011: therearerules

Edited by Darragh, 26 February 2012 - 10:41 PM.

[lordcookie]

I never win but I'm definitely up for it again. I'm hoping the fact that I've only seen one of the films nominated in the major four categories might help me this time.

[Darragh]

Picks and voucher received! Like you, I've only seen one of the Best Picture nominees (The Tree of Life), so I'm going to try and see a few more before I make my decisions.

[therearerules]

I haven't seen any of the nominees, and I doubt I will. However my track record speaks for itself. It says "in"

[Goose]

Watching the BAFTAs and reminded me I'd not entered this!

[Ben]

Will PM you shortly with my list; tricky to separate in my head the films that deserve to win and the ones the Academy will undoubtedly pick...

[Goose]

I'm in!

[Darragh]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone! Everyone should have all the necessary information now, just let me know if I've forgotten you! I'm about to send a PM to everyone who took part last year to try and entice a few more into the fray.

I'll try to send my picks to lordcookie tomorrow for safekeeping.

[jon_cybernet]

I'd like to enter!

[DeadRussian]

Might give this a whirl. I've got cinema insider help.

[Exidor]

Go on then.

[Hardwired]

I'm in again. Makes the whole thing a little more interesting.

[Darragh]

Right, everything should be up to date now. Lordcookie has my picks, and the list of participants and where they are in the process has been updated in the original post. As it stands, there will be £40 in the prize pool, which isn't too bad! I think we hit £70 last year, let's try to top it!

There seems to be a lot fewer "sure things" among the main categories this year, so those 3-pointers could get pretty hectic on the night! I haven't checked, but I'd be very surprised if we were unanimous on any of the categories, as has always happened in previous years.

[grounded_dreams]

Im up for this again.

[Darragh]

Im up for this again.

You have PM!

With poppa_f signing up via PM, there's £50 expected in the prize pool now!

[jon_cybernet]

£55, surely?

[grounded_dreams]

Have emailed Darragh the Amazon gift.

[Darragh]

£55, surely?

Right you are! How I forgot to add your name to the list of entrants, I don't know! All fixed now.

Have emailed Darragh the Amazon gift.

Received!

[Jumble Jumble]

Too late to join in?

[Darragh]

Too late to join in?

Not at all! You have PM!

[Fohat]

Yeah I'm up for it. Can someone kindly explain how I do the Amazon Voucher?

[lordcookie]

Darragh will send you a PM with the email address you need to send it to, or do you need more help than that?

If so:

- Go to Amazon
- Click gift cards which is near the top of the home page
- Pick 'e-mail a gift certificate'
- Add the amount (£5) and the email address that Darragh gives you
- Then go through a standard online transaction

[Fohat]

Darragh will send you a PM with the email address you need to send it to, or do you need more help than that?

If so:

- Go to Amazon
- Click gift cards which is near the top of the home page
- Pick 'e-mail a gift certificate'
- Add the amount (£5) and the email address that Darragh gives you
- Then go through a standard online transaction

Exactly that. Thanks

[DeadRussian]

Paid and PM'd my picks over to you, Darragh.

Good luck, chumps!

[Darragh]

Participant list updated! Just waiting on vouchers and picks from a few people. Still time to sign up, too, so if you're reading this and haven't joined up, just drop me a PM and I'll send the e-mail address for the Amazon voucher right over!

[grounded_dreams]

Sent over my picks.

Good luck everyone

[Goose]

Good luck for tonight, all!

[Darragh]

OK, I've heard nada from therearerules or poppa_f since they signed up, so I've removed them from the list for the moment. If either of you guys are reading, send your picks and voucher over ASAP if you still want in!

And yes, good luck to everyone! I'll try to keep y'all posted on the scores as the night progresses on the off-chance that you're as masochistic as I am and are staying up to watch the whole sordid affair.

[Darragh]

Oh, the prize distribution! I almost forgot. In the event that poppa_f and therearerules don't re-enter the fray, there'll be £50 in the prize pool. Shall we say £40 for the winner, and £10 for the runner-up?

[lordcookie]

How have we handled it in previous years?