The new organization Generation Election PAC is having a contest to predict the winners of some of the main categories of the Academy Awards.
The categories in the contest are:
Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actor/Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song.
Nominees can be found here:
http://www.oscars.org/77academyawards/nomswins.html
Send all of your predictions to us at gepac@generationelection.org
More on the prizes after the fold ...
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First Prize for the Oscar Contest is a free thinkBLUE2008 wristband shipped to you free of shipping and handling charges.
If you haven't seen these wristbands (like the Lance Armstrong livestrong bands but blue), go to www.thinkBlue2008.com.
First Prize will also include one of the first copies of the report GEPAC is currently preparing entitled "Taking Our Country
Back: How GEPAC Can Help to Build a New Progressive Majority." The report should be ready for publication in a few weeks and we will send it to the first place winner, free of charge, as soon as it is completed.
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For more info on the GEPAC Oscar Contest ...
http://gepac.blogspot.com/2005/02/gepacs-oscar-contest.html
Here is a list of nominees in the categories in our contest:
Best Picture
Ray
Sideways
Million Dollar Baby
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
Best Actor:
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Actress:
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Alda, The Aviator
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
Clive Owen, Closer
Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
Natalie Portman, Closer
Best Director:
Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford, Ray
Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
Alexander Payne, Sideways
Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Best Screenplay: Original:
Brad Bird, The Incredibles
Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
John Logan, The Aviator
Keir Pierson, Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
Best Screenplay:
Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Sideways
Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Before Sunset
David Magee, Finding Neverland
Jose Rivera, The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Original Song:
Accidentally In Love - Music by Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Shrek 2
Al Otro Lado Del Río - Music and Lyric by Jorge Drexler
The Motorcycle Diaries
Believe - Music and Lyric by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri "The Polar Express
Learn To Be Lonely - Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Phantom of the Opera
Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin) - Music by Bruno Coulais, The Chorus (Les Choristes
Finally, e-mail us what YOU think is the Best Film of the year (regardless of whether it is nominated.)
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Thanks for any interest in our Oscar Contest. To enter, send an e-mail with your predictions to gepac@generationelection.org
For more information on Generation Election PAC, a political action commitee started by a 17 year old to get young people involved in politics and to elect a new generation of progressives to public office, go to:
http://www.GenerationElection.org
http://gepac.blogspot.com
Thanks for your time.
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