Looks like I'm in the market for a new dart board. It was neither helpful in the oscar pool nor my NCAA bracket. Guess I'll try to give it away on craigslist.

I do have a brush with oscar tale to share and a nominated film to promote. Go see "The Garden." April brings it's theatrical premiere, LA first and then arthouses around the country.

Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, his second feature length doc after one in '04 called "Our Towne" which chronicled the dramatic production of the play Our Towne in a high school in Compton.

Anyway, Scott Kennedy is a Skidmore College alum and he brought his latest film to campus this weekend that I enjoyed immensely. I joined some students for dinner with him prior to the screening and then he treated us to a great Q&A following the film. He was in line behind Anne Hathaway (another graduate of a top tier liberal arts college in Upstate New York) for the photo shoot with the Academy Director. So I guess I had dinner with someone who once stood in line with Anne Hathaway. Take that Kevin Bacon!

So check this out, watch the trailer and then support the film when it comes to your town!
http://www.blackvalleyfilms.com/

Blythe thanks for the fun!

i agree with kari – and also – i’ve so middle of the pack every year. i hate being average.

Any chance you could give us a ranking that includes JUST the big ones? Best Picture, Director, the four Acting awards… maybe the two Screenplay awards.

I felt so good about those picks – but all the technical ones, well, those were random guesses.

Thanks so much! (Insert repeat of Oscar night foreign film acceptance speech that closes with lines from “Mr. Roboto”.) And most of all, Blythe, thanks for organizing this!

Damn. Congrats Melanie.