The Oscar Nominations for 1998 were released this morning. The web site below has an easy-to-read complete list of the nominees.

Last year I ran an competition between myself and a couple of friends to see who could guess the most winners. We made guesses on every category except the Foreign Film, Short, and Documentary categories. I guessed the winners in all but two categories (Best Makeup, which went to Titanic, and Best Musical/Comedy Score, which went to The Full Monty). I don't expect to do as well this year, but time will tell.

I'd like to open up the competition to RinkWorks readers this year. I haven't decided if I'll just conduct it here or set up an automated way of monitoring people's guesses. At any rate, if this sounds like fun to you, check out the list of nominations and start thinking about it. (And don't worry if you haven't seen a lot of the movies -- you'd be surprised by what little difference that makes. :-)