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2011 Games

2/27/12 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "bigb" and "jarsu," who guessed 20 out of 24 awards. The results are here!
1/24/12 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "liscobeck," who got 28/33 nominations correct.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/26/12.
12/22/11 - Nominations voting for the 2011 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/23/12.

2010 Games

2/27/11 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "afremont," who guessed 20 out of 24 awards. Congratulations also to "willywopmarine," who also scored 20 but lost the tiebreaker. The results are here!
1/25/11 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "ramonjamart," who got 30/33 nominations correct and won the tiebreaker round. Congratulations also to "liscobeck," who also got 30/333 correct.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/27/11.
12/15/10 - Nominations voting for the 2010 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/24/11.

2009 Games

3/7/10 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "ccbaxter," "kurlysticks," and "pickle," who scored 18 out of 24 and outperformed 9 other players in the tiebreaker questions. The results are here!
2/2/10 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to, uh, me, and also "curiousri," "dhrod," "martinblanck," and "jebediah," who placed 1st through 5th respectively. All of these guessed 31 of 33 nominations and differed only in the tiebreaker questions.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 3/7/10.
2/1/10 - The game is closed! Stay tuned for the results.
12/15/09 - Nominations voting for the 2009 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 2/1/10.

2008 Games

2/25/09 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "mikeyfilmmaker," who scored an astonishing 22 out of 24. The results are here!
1/22/09 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "drood," who correctly guessed 22 out of 26 nominations.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/22/09.
12/17/08 - Nominations voting for the 2008 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/21/09.

2007 Games

2/25/08 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "remidoes," who scored 18 out of 24 in an unusually unpredictable year. The results are here!
1/22/08 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to, uh, me, and also to "licky," "jarsu," and "automator," who matched my score and diverged only on the tiebreaker questions.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/24/08.
12/26/07 - Nominations voting for the 2007 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/21/08.

2006 Games

2/26/07 - The game is over, and the results are in!
Congratulations to "securitons," who scored 17 out of 24 and won the tiebreaker over the second place "cos23," who also scored 17 out of 24.
Neither, however, had entered the All Movie Talk prize code to be eligible to win the prizes. The winners of the first, second, and third place prizes are as follows:
- First place: jebediah (16 out of 24)
- Second place: siochembio (15 out of 24)
- Third place: automator (15 out of 24)
All three will receive a copy of the "Making Movies" book. Additionally, jebediah will receive two DVDs, and siochembio will receive one. All three of you should email me with your mailing address, and jebediah and siochembio should also select the appropriate number of movie(s) from the list specified on this page.
1/23/07 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "jkjuice, who took first place with 23 out of 26 points.
However, jkjuice's account was not activated with the prize code. The winner of our prize, a copy of Sidney Lumet's book Making Movies, courtesy of All Movie Talk, goes to "trip", our fourth place winner, first among those who entered the prize code to become eligible to win the prize. Trip, drop me an email with your mailing address, and we'll get that shipped out to you.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/25/07.
If you listen to All Movie Talk, Episode 18, you will receive a code you can enter to make yourself eligible to win the prizes we are offering for this game The prizes are: a copy of Sidney Lumet's book Making Movies for each of the top three eligible players; two DVD movies for the winner, taken from this list of ten great films; and one DVD movie from the list for the runner-up. You must enter the prize code to be eligible to win any of these prizes; however, you do not need to do so to compete for fun.
12/13/06 - Some people were experiencing errors logging into the Academy Awards Predictions Game. This error has since been fixed. Please email sam@rinkworks.com if you encounter any further problems.
12/12/06 - Nominations voting for the 2006 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/22/07.
But guess what? For this particular game, we're offering a prize! To be eligible to win, listen to All Movie Talk, Episode 11, a podcast you can download or listen to within your browser. During the episode we'll give you a code. Then come back here, log in, and enter the code in the space that will be provided. That will make you eligible to win the prize.
The eligible player that places first amongst all eligible players in the Nominations Game will win a copy of Sidney Lumet's book Making Movies, an easy read that's chock full of great information and anecdotes about making movies.
Read more information about winning prizes.

2005 Games

3/5/06 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "instlouis" and "remidoes," who scored 21 out of 24. The results are here!
1/31/06 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "jebediah," who scored 24 out of 26.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 3/5/06.
12/9/05 - Nominations voting for the 2005 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/30/06.

2004 Games

2/27/05 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "haplord," who tied with me for 19 out of 24 correct guesses. The results are here!
1/25/05 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "bk," "entmoot," and "wedgeantilles," who tied in first place with 21 out of 26 correct guesses.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/27/05.
12/16/04 - Nominations voting for the 2004 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/24/05.

2003 Games

3/1/04 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "barbara2223," who scored 23 out of 24 correct guesses.
1/27/04 - The game is over, and the results are in! Congratulations to "bowie," who tied with me to win the game with 22 out of 25 correct guesses. Note that the competition actually included 26 total nominations, but one (Fernando Meirelles, with a Best Director nomination for City of God) was not on the entry form for this contest, so it was not possible to score a point for that one.
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 2/29/04.
12/15/03 - Nominations voting for the 2003 Academy Awards is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 1/26/04.

2002 Games

3/23/03 - The results are in! Congraluations to "jtufnell," "tyryl," "chrisswoozie," and "automator," who tied for first place, with 17 out of 24 correct guesses.
3/23/03 - The game is over! The winners will be posted here after the Oscar telecast tonight.
2/11/03 - The results are in! Congratulations to "automator" and "tkeytennis," who tied for first place, with 21 out of 23 correct guesses. (I was second to them, darn everything all to heck!!)
Meanwhile, the contest for predicting the winners is open. Log in now to make your guesses for the winners of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close roughly an hour before the Oscar telecast on 3/23/03.
2/10/03 - The game is over! The Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, and the results of the contest will be posted shortly thereafter.
2/9/03 - The deadline for making guesses for the Oscar nominations is Monday, 2/10, sometime in the evening. To be safe, make sure all of your guesses are made before 5pm, EST.
1/29/03 - Oscar ballots are due from Academy members today.
1/18/03 - Nominations voting is open! Log in now to make your guesses for the nominees of this year's Academy Awards. The game will close on 2/10/03.

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