Each year, it seems, everyone makes their Oscar predictions, and since tomorrow is the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, I might as well take a shot at movie fortune telling as well. Obviously there’s some categories that no normal person knows anything about, like Costume Design & Art Direction, so for those I just made an educated guess. For the bigger categories I wrote a little blurb about why I thought they were the winner, who might also be in contention, or who I think should win. This is the second year in a row that I’ve done this, and the first year I did horribly, I think I got 5 picks right. This year I probably won’t do any better, but it was fun giving it a shot. Take a look at the nominees & my picks below.
Minor Categories
Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Cinematography
Avatar, Mauro Fiore
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon, Christian Berger
Costume Design
Bright Star, Janet Patterson
Coco before Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
Nine, Colleen Atwood
The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell Read More »
Tagged: academy awards, Avatar, films, Inglourious Basterds, Movies, oscar, The Hurt Locker, Up, Up in the Air
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- March 6, 2010 – 10:03 pm
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- By Steven
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What do you use for your browser’s homepage? Is it Google, MSN, Yahoo, or a custom version of one of those sites made by the maker of your browser? Perhaps you’re like me and over the years you’ve changed it many times CNN one week, then the New York Times, then maybe TSN. Or you might even be a Firefox user and you leave so many tabs open when you close your browser that you haven’t seen your homepage in months.
All of those are great options, but recently I’ve found myself being frustrated with my homepage choice. I no longer leave tabs open when I close Firefox (when I use it, I’ve recently been using Chrome), as I find it takes much too long to launch a browser when it has to load 5-10 tabs every time. Having Google or some Firefox startpage with a Google search bar has never really made sense to me… browsers like Firefox & Chrome offer Google search functions either in a search box or Omnibar.
I could just pick one of my favourite sites, but there’s about 10-15 sites I check on a daily basis and pick one doesn’t seem practical when I could have a start page that organized these sites for very quick access. Chrome’s new tab page is great (screenshot found below), it takes the top 8 sites you visit and presents you with thumbnails of each site for very quick access. You can even pin certain sites to stay there so they don’t drop down. That’s a great option but what if you want something different? Read More »
Tagged: Chrome, Fav4.org, Firefox, google, homepage, Start.io
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- February 22, 2010 – 4:23 pm
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- By Steven
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