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Don’t forget: You’ve got less than 24 hours to put in your predictions for my 2007 Oscar Contest (if you haven’t already)! As usual, the scores will be updated as near-to-live as possible on this page. (They’re not showing it live here, so I’ll be hitting refresh on the internet all day.) I’ll also need to beg for some assistance once again. If you’re going to be watching the show, can you count the number of dead people in the tribute montage for me? Thanks…

I’m happy to announce that – at long last – my Fifth Annual Oscar Contest has begun! I have to tell you, it was hard to top last year’s prize. So what do you get if you reign supreme this year? Oh yes, your very own trio of fabulous Dream Monkeys! They shimmy; they sing; they have really long eyelashes. Their hair is as big as I could get it (given the limitations of chenille-covered pipe cleaners). People, these are the hardest working monkeys in show business!Special thanks go to Amy for ruffle-sewing assistance and makeup suggestions.

Here are a few more pictures:

(Could I pander to my gay readers any more? I could not.)

Oscar Contest Update: Wow, the entries have really been pouring in these last few days. If you haven’t entered yet, you’re really cutting it close! Go on, make your picks. During the actual show, I’ll be following along on the Internet and updating the winners. You’ll be able to see a live tallyboard here that shows everyone’s scores. (Man, I’m really counting on Supporting Actor, Foreign Film, and Song to break up all the ties!) As with the past few years, I’ll need some of you TiVo viewers to volunteer to count the dead people for me in the annual obituary montage. Pretty please?

Oh, and as for enforcing the rules, I just went through and discovered about a dozen people had entered more than once. A few were obviously just due to hitting the submit button twice, but there were several where the person had revised their entry a few weeks afterwards. I figured since the rules clearly state you only get one shot, I was justified in deleting their later entry. (Just in case you were wondering why you might not do as well as you’re expecting, cheaters!)

The 4th Annual Web-Goddess Oscar Contest will start later today! Stay tuned…

On a related note, we saw Walk the Line with Rob and Amy last night. My reaction was pretty much the same as Ebert‘s – the story was your basic predictable biopic but the real redeeming factors were the acting and the music. Joaquin Phoenix has always struck me as a little creepy, and that definitely hasn’t changed. He was so good as Cash, though, that now I kinda think of Johnny Cash as a little creepy too. I was all set for Reese Witherspoon to drive me up the wall – from her very first Minnie Pearl “Thanks, y’all!” at the Grand Ol’ Opry – but she completely won me over. In fact, I had been expecting to be blown away by this grand fairy tale romance but by the end of it, I just felt sad and angry at how June had been manipulated by this guy for years. And proposing to her on stage? That was the biggest dick move of all. I came straight home to look her up and find out if she wrote any autobiographies. (She did.) I know they were together for thirty-five years and all evidence points to them being very much in love… but I hope to hell he was the most Perfect Husband on Earth, because he had a lot to make up for. Now if you’ll go excuse me, I’ve got to search the P2P networks for “Swallerin’ Place.”

By the time I get up in eight hours the Oscar nominations will have already been released, so let me just assure you all that the Fourth Annual Web-Goddess Oscar Contest will be starting very shortly. I’m not quite finished with the prize yet so we’ll probably be launching on Friday or Saturday. And can I just say, I have had a stroke of GENIUS this year. Seriously, it’s going to be the greatest prize yet. So go to the movies!

Entries are now closed for the Oscar Contest. The results will be updated live here. Good luck everyone! (And don’t forget to count dead people for me…)

Later: Woohoo! That documentary upset definitely spread out the scores a bit.

It’s Over: Man, I really thought Christopher was going to pull off the victory there. It would have been fitting, as he was the original inspiration for the Soctopus. Alas, Clint Eastwood was his downfall. Damn you, Clint! First prize thus went to steven johnson, who got all ten categories correct and nailed the tiebreaker. Second prize goes to David Eskridge, and third to Ed Ploog. Thanks to everybody who entered!

Just looking at the Oscar Contest predictions and, man, there are clear-cut favorites in every single category. I hope there’s at least one upset or we’re going to end up in a massive tie. As with last year, I need a couple volunteers to count the dead people in the tribute montage for me. (It won’t air here til a few hours later.) The good news is that I’ve got Monday off so I’ll be sitting on the computer watching the results come in and updating everyone’s scores.