Contest: Predict the most Oscar losers

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Poster Jason Travis has created a hilarious contest in our message boards. Never mind joining another competition to predict who’ll win the Academy Awards. ‘In this contest, I’m seeing who can get the most predictions WRONG,’ he says. ‘For every category you predict wrong (meaning that film CANNOT be the actual winner), you get 1 point.’ Check it out here.

That may seem simple, but give it a try. Sure, Mark Ruffalo (‘The Kids Are All Right’) doesn’t have a prayer of winning best supporting actor and the cinematographers of ‘The Social Network’ shouldn’t bother to prepare an acceptance speech, but other races are tricky. In those categories decided by special committees – best foreign film, documentary and animated shorts, etc. – weird stuff wins all the time.

-- Tom O’Neil

Illustration by Tom O’Neil