The Best Picture Tournament: THE FINALS!!!

That’s right folks!  You have voted and voted well and YOU have decided which are the two best Best Picture winners of all time.  It was a great tournament and we learned more than you may think.  Most importantly, we got it done in time so that on Sunday, when the 81st Academy Awards occurs, [...]

Best Picture TOURNAMENT: Day 21 – Casablanca vs. The Godfather

Best Picture Tournament: Day 21: Casablanca vs. The Godfather Casablanca Current Ranking: 10 PRO Classic Bogie and Classic Film: + This is well known to be one of the greatest movies of all time. You know back in the day they had a bad habit of not giving the best film the Best Picture award. [...]

Best Picture Tournament: Day 20 – The Godfather: Part II vs. Schindler’s List

Best Picture Tournament: Day 20: Schindler’s List vs. The Godfather: Part II Schindler’s List Current Ranking: 8 PRO Speilberg’s Big Vision: + Steve Speilberg’s visionary film, one of the greatest of all time, really aught to be given its place as the champion of this tourney. Ben Kingsley, Liam Neelson, Ralph Feinnes. It’s a comperable [...]

81st Academy Awards Winners!!!

Yes, thats right. You the people have decided who will win the academy awards next sunday. It wont be decided by the academy. It was already decided by you.  Check out the entire results here! Here are your final winners: Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Best Actor: Mickey Roarke, The [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Director Day 3

OK, so, you have finalized the best actress fight with Meryl Streep on top.  I’ll get on telling the academy what you have decided.  Then you decided who won the best Actor fight.  You gave it to Mr. Mickey Rourke.  A comeback for the ages, as they say.  Then you went ahead and told me [...]

The Best Picture Tournament: Day 19

Hey folks. Ok, its time. You have to make sure to vote this round. This will be your only chance. Four fights. Thats all of em! You have to get your opinions out there. Did you know that if you add a comment, your voice will be heard even better. Everyone might just agree with [...]

Whooops! BEST PICTURE TOURNAMENT Fix

Hey all. So, I guess I’m a complete idiot. I don’t know why I did it, but I accidentally put Driving Miss Daisy in the fight against Braveheart. This is essentially a useless fight because it was Forrest Gump that had advanced last round, not Driving Miss Daisy. So, we are kind of in a [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Actor Day 3

So, in day 1 we got some work done.  Rankings were made and they were fairly close.  But there was a tie.  Then, in day 2, the fights did magnificantly, solidifying all of the rankings, except for one pesky problem: the tie!  The tie must redone!  We need to decide which movie belongs in second [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Picture Day 2

Hey Folks. Thanks for all of your votes and it looks fairly likely that we will have all of these fights over with by the time the academy awards occurs in mid february. That being said, you guys and gals did a great job on the Best Picture fights from last week, but there is [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Director Day 2

Hey buddies.  Well in the first round of the 2008 Directors fight, we had some interesting results.  A tie, a three win movie, and some opportunities for additional fights.  Its an interesting dilemma I put myself in with ties.  Usually I try to get someone to break the tie so I dont have to think, [...]

The Best Picture TOURNAMENT: Day 18

Day 2 of Round 4 of the 1st Tournament of 2009. You have 4 more polls that you can vote on in this round and they are all here. Therefore, there are two posts, 8 fights for you to vote on in this round. Your votes are needed and I know you’ve seen these movies. [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Actor Day 2

Frost/Nixon 1 8 Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4 3 Frost/Nixon Milk 8 1 The Visitor The Wrestler 7 0 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Well folks, its time for some more Best Actor Polls. You all did an excellent job voting in the first group, but you made one mistake… There [...]

The Best Picture TOURNAMENT: Day 17

Welcome back to the Best Picture Tournament. Starting today, we are dealing with Round 4: THE SWEET SIXTEEN! You need to vote now and vote often. We really need to get as many people to vote now because these are the fights that really matter. Your job in addition to voting is to get one [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Actress – Day 2

Hey, welcome back everyone.  Well, you’ve done a great job putting the ladies into the correct order, but I’d love to get this solidified.  We seem to know who’s at the top and the bottom, but lets solidify for good.  Two more polls today should do the trick (but I’m giving you 4!) and then [...]

81st Academy Awards: Best Picture

Hey Folks, Ok, today you get to the meat.  You get to start deciding the best picture at the 2009 Academy Awards.  Well, not really, I mean, you have nothing to do with it, but it would be nice to see if the Academy is following the general public’s opinion (though i guess that would [...]