halfpoint millionaire

Leave it to slumdog millionaire to trot out everyone who worked on the project on stage. That was what pushed Ukari Figgs into second place over Sissy Sara...

Final scores:


rank
name
points
1
halfpoint
27.00
2
ukari figgs
22.97
3
sissy sara
21.99
4
louis louis
21.00
5
sneakey peakey
20.99
6
lisa McWhoareyouwearing
19.99
7
bloody marie
19.99
8
dental hygenius
19.98
9
full monte
19.97
10
alex d'amour
19.97
11
poolmaster
18.98
12
benger dosbert
16.99
13
2 dog might
16.98
14
Mr. Sprigg's BBQueen
15.99
15
bijou
15.98
16
swartz the quartz
15.97
17
daniel steele
15.00
18
dr. norway
12.00
19
watkins glen
11.97
20
last minute derek
9.99

Louis Louis is a victim of the black-gray controversy, but that dress is most definitely gray...

Last Minute Derek goes wire to wire in last to keep his entry fee. Nice work Derek!

Thanks to all for playing!
Poolmaster

deniro comes through with the kiss!

I`ll have to pull the tape, but i think Robert helped the kiss selection be a winner! halfpoint comes out the winner, with a sister fight for second. ukari vs. sissy

someone has picked up a british accent

and a brand new oscar for best actress.

by the way, that dress is most definitely gray, with black accents.

halfpoint ahead by 1 over ukari figgs coming down the stretch. but he had sean penn and ukari has mickey rourke

oh liam neeson

why do you steal away freida from dev? i mean, he spent the whole movie going through all that bad stuff, only for the Jedi mind tricks of Qui-Gon Jinn to whisk her away. ukari figgs and halfpoint will solidify their lead thanks to the split of the slumdog couple.

o saya dude

hey - didn`t he just win the score award? looks like he lost his dumb nervous jokes just in time to belt out the song...

but i do like the audacity of having a sing-fight between the jai ho and down to the ground.

this is the part of the program

where we ask the musical question: who the heck is joel gray?

(also, this format of same-sex awarding for the major acting awards leads me to think we won`t get a peck on the cheek later on from the best actor winner...)

UPDATE: It is Joel Grey and he is best known for being the father of Jennifer Grey, of Dirty Dancing. Thank you wikipedia for this oscar moment... now back to your daily dose of will smith trying to convince you how cool sound mixing is.

ukari figgs now joins halfpoint in the lead. alex dàmour and bloody marie 1 point back

gray-black dress controversy heats up

you make the call. phone lines are open for voting now.

by the way, halfpoint has taken the early lead with 8 points. meanwhile last minute derek is struggling in a tie for last with dental hygenius.

as i`m writing this, i`m listening to a song medley of all songs in recorded history that are NOT up for an award tonight... holy time filler, batman.

penelope drops the ball

penelope, how hard is it to say god or agent? even darfur? come on...

also, dude that won for adapted screenplay - you know, if you`re up for an award and plan on mentioning the leading actress in your speech, maybge you should, you know, learn HER NAME beforehand... because just calling her by the film character is a bit bush league.

oh, and if you`re keeping score, angelina jolie: nominated for an award and sitting next to brad pitt. jennifer aniston: giving out cartoon awards next to jack black. (enjoy those Friends royalties, jen)

thanks for nothing winslet...

crap, she`s wearing black! so much for MY entry...

I will try to run a live blog, but be prepared that i will need to multitask putting some kids to bed with my oscar watching at least for the first hour. when the good awards are out, i`ll be here commenting on them. enjoy!

Academy Awards Challenge

A bleak mid-winter? Ms. Rossetti, you don't know the half of it. We cannot yet smell a hint of tightly mown grass or the fresh vial of androstendione for baseball spring, yet the trailing residue of football tailgate bratwurst has surely faded from even the least-frequently-washed jeans. In mid-February, what are we then to do? Basketball can wait until March, hockey even longer, and curling is, frankly the nuclear option. We need something else to watch and gamble on. Perhaps something with Nazis, backwardly aging people, Indian gangs, and Sean Penn…

Welcome to the first annual Poolmaster Academy Awards Challenge!

Wait, I know what you’re thinking. Don't worry, I won’t ask you to try to tell the difference between art direction, cinematography, and costume design. This isn’t some high-minded indie critic type of ironic pool. The Poolmaster wouldn’t do that to you.

Attached is the entry form where you pick the winners of the major categories as well as some … um … bonus questions to spice things up a bit. Entry fee is $5 US or $6 CAN. Please pay your local poolmaster representative as usual.

Please fill out the form and return it to me by Sunday Feb 22, sometime before any of the red carpet shows begin. Winner will get 67%, second place 33%, and last place their money back. Please forward this on to any friends and enemies.

Hopefully this will tide us all over until selection Sunday!

Also, updates and snarky comments will be posted on the Poolmaster blog website here. There is an outside possibility I will be live-blogging the show! But there is also a possibility I will forget and watch the rerun of Mythbusters where they try to slice a pig in two with a snapping high-tension cable.

Some websites to help with your research:

Official site

Wikipedia on nominees

Statistics nerd handicaps the field

NYTimes Oscars Blog

Good Luck!

Poolmaster