Sent. My ballot was split pretty evenly between TWBB, Zodiac, and Sweeney Todd.

Yes definitely.

I still want to get to at least 50; otherwise there could be too much randomness in the winners (haven't counted everything to confirm that). I apologize for my lack of activity last week due to traveling, but hopefully we will get a rush of ballots the last several days. Thanks everyone!

I'll send out reminders tomorrow.

You can expect my ballot last minute, as usual.

Juno for BP

It's funny...as much as I really liked No Country for Old Men, it might actually get zero votes from me, simply because of coming in second in most of the categories.

Blame that on Atonement, There Will Be Blood and Jesse James.

and Juno

Ballot sent!

I haven't seen Juno, nor will I see it before voting.

Blame it on German distributors.

We are at 42 ballots right now, and the majority of the races (including most of the big ones) are still unspeakably close.

xiayun and I have decided on a time/date for the ceremony, too:

Sunday, February 24th at 12:00 PM PST

3 days till Juno wins

Midday is good, unless it lasts until the oscars.

I sent my final ballot btw.

The reminder is out, by the way.

Sent my ballot.

Here's how my votes were distributed:

Atonement - 5
There Will Be Blood - 3
Knocked Up - 2
Transformers - 2
Enchanted - 2
The Assassination of Jesse James - 2
Hairspray - 1
Superbad - 1
28 Weeks Later - 1
La Vie En Rose - 1
The Lives of Others - 1
Ratatouille -1


No Country got zero votes, even though I saw it and really liked it. It came in second for me in five categories.


Major films I didn't manage to catch:

Sweeney Todd
Juno
Once

For me it was:

Atonment: 7
Sweeney Todd: 4
No Country For Old Men: 3
Juno: 2
There Will Be Blood: 1
Enchanted: 1
Knocked Up: 1
Ratatouille: 1
Sicko: 1
The Lives of Others: 1
Pirates 3: 1

We hit 50!

I'm hoping for 70+

My breakdown was:

Sweeney Todd - 5
Zodiac - 4
There Will Be Blood - 4
Sunshine - 2
Once - 2
Persepolis - 2
No Country for Old Men - 1
The Bourne Ultimatum - 1
Hot Fuzz - 1
Sicko - 1
Atonement - 1

That'd certainly be great.

53 ballots submitted and counted.

The race for Best Picture is as close as anyone could ever imagine.

Yep, and Director.

I bet Picture is between NCFOM and Atonement which has quite a following here.

Director is probably between PTA and the Coens

There are basically clear and strong support for four films; although none of the categories has all four of them in it (due to TWBB's absence in BP), whenever three of them show up in one, it's a tooth-and-nail battle.