Oscar Chart Retinkering
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 12:01PM
NATHANIEL R in Oscars (12)

FWIW, I've been cleaning up the Oscar charts this weekend to fix up the Foreign Submission Charts (every year the announcement of the foreign finalists sneaks up on me and renders much of that work moot!), the multiple categories of short films, animation and documentary as well as reflect the finalist changes in the various score and song rulings. I've also cleaned up the Visual and Screenplay categories. Picture and Director charts didn't require much attention since their two of the only categories that seem to be locking down... though you'll notice I'm still assuming that the rowdy bloody messily entertaining Django Unchained isn't making the inroads that the Globes suggest.

But as for Actor and ActressSupporting Actress and Supporting Actor charts who the hell knows? In all four categories the final shortlist looks blissfully hard to predict after this Week of Precursor Madness (the math of heralded buzzy performances just doesn't add up to 20 nominations!). I love it when this happens because sweet Jesus it's rare.

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