Born Into Brothels pulls the Best Documentary Feature upset! (Only Josh Rubin and Kate Morran got it right.) Latest standings after the jump.
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
Cate Blanchett wins Best Supporting Actress; Vicki Lopez (”Vicki from NJ”) takes the lead! Evan Sparks, Sergio Lopez and Kate Spitz are tied for second.
Full standings after the jump.
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
The Aviator wins Best Costume Design. Updates standings after the jump.
Best Supporting Actress up next!
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
In case anyone forgot, here are the Oscar pool rules. Most importantly, here are the point values per category:
Best Picture: 15
Best Director: 9
Best Actor: 9
Best Actress: 9
Best Supporting Actor: 6
Best Supporting Actress: 6
Original Screenplay: 4
Adapted Screenplay: 4
Original Score: 2
Original Song: 2
Everything Else: 1 point each
Best Supporting Actress, which will be the last large-point-value category for quite a while, is coming soon.
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
Thank you, Lemony Snicket… after Best Makeup, I’m in sole possession of the lead!
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
The Incredibles wins Best Animated Feature!
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
Morgan Freeman wins Best Supporting Actor, puts me in a two-way tie for the lead! :)
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
The Aviator wins Best Art Direction! Oscar pool standings after the jump.
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
The Oscar broadcast is underway on ABC, and the polls are now closed in the BrendanLoy.com Oscar contest. Thanks to the 25 people who entered! Good luck, everyone!
More info coming shortly.
UPDATE: Here’s a table of everyone’s picks. Please let me know if you notice any errors!
|
Categories: TV, Movies & Entertainment
|
The Penn Quakers have officially earned the first automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament! They’re widely projected as a #14 seed.
|
Categories: NCAA Basketball & Pools
|
Don’t be fooled by the fact that I’m smiling and Mike isn’t. His Bruins just beat both of my teams by double digits in the course of four days. Ugh. UCLA 90, USC 69. UCLA 75, ND 65. Ugh.
Oh, well. At least the USC women won. And there’s a big water polo showdown today as well. Go Trojans! Beat the Bruins!
Meanwhile, Nick has to be happy. He drove all the way to Bloomington today to watch Indiana play #10 Michigan State — and the Hoosiers came through, stunning the Spartans 78-74 in OT to keep their faint NCAA Tournament hopes alive.
P.S. Against Notre Dame, UCLA was 14-for-22 (.636) on three-pointers… but only 10-for-29 (.345) on two-pointers!
In other news, one day after I “adopted” them, the Vermont Catamounts lost to Maine, 87-66. D’oh! Of course, Vermont, having already clinched the America East regular-season championsip and the #1 seed in the conference tournament, was playing without its two leading scorers… which may not have been the greatest idea for an at-large contender whose hopes may have taken a big hit from a bad loss like this. But I guess they’re making a judgment that they’d rather rest their stars, and increase their chances of earning an automatic bid via the America East tourney. The wisdom of that strategy remains to be seen.
|
Categories: NCAA Basketball & Pools
|
The Irish made a valiant attempt at a comeback, but missed several good opportunities to get within striking distance. FUCLA wins, 75-65. ND precariously on the bubble. Mike Tran happy. Dammit. :(This message will expire on April 28, 2005

|
Categories: Mobile Blog (Moblog)
|
FUCLA 53, Notre Dame 37 with 12 minutes left. Argh.This message will expire on April 28, 2005

|
Categories: Mobile Blog (Moblog)
|
With their win over Arizona tonight, the Huskies are two wins away from a share of the Pac-10 title. Tonight’s win also gave them an unbeaten home record for this season.
|
Categories: NCAA Basketball & Pools
|
In honor of Engineering Week, a group of computer engineering majors at the University of California-Santa Cruz used almost 4,000 Post-Its to create an homage to the most famous video game hero of all time.
|
Categories: Technology & Nerdy News
|