Red Carpet Rosters

Category: Just For Fun

  • Oscars Betting and the New York Times

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    I had the great fortune of being featured in a New York Times article about my experience with Oscars betting! Next year, look to this site to see more suggestions on betting picks as I will release them much more periodically to go with the planned new features of the site! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/oscars-betting.html

  • Oscar Wins Over/Under Contest for Red Carpet Rosters

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    The 96th Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 10, and if predicting the winners in each category sounds too daunting, here’s a little contest for you. https://forms.gle/XTwzuqYrdJWAeqrM8 The rules are simple. Each Oscar-nominated feature film has an “O/U” with a number by it. All you have to do is pick whether that film will get…

  • All-Fantasy Teams after Critics Choice Noms

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  • My Personal Ranking of ALL Oscar Nominated Films

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    I try to be objective, but I’m embracing my personal biases rather than trying to ignore them. The lists below are in order of preference, but I separate them in tiers. The last movie in each tier is closer in preference to the first movie in that same tier than it is the first movie…

  • Documentaries As Predictors of Best Picture Winners

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    Moonlight The first year we made it a personal mission to watch every single nominee was the first year I started betting on the Oscars: the year Moonlight won in 2017 (for the 2016 film year.) After watching all the nominees, it clicked for me that Moonlight would pull the upset over La La Land…

  • Final Oscar Predictions

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    I usually shy away from Oscar predictions because I’m usually pretty terrible at it, but then again, so is everyone else. No offense. The 4th and 5th nominees in each category are where it goes bad for everyone, so in that spirit, there are some left field predictions here. PICTURE DIRECTOR LEAD ACTOR LEAD ACTRESS…

  • ALL FANTASY TEAMS

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    With the regular season wrapping up today, which players were the MVP’s this season? First Team All Fantasy Position Player Pts PIC Everything Everywhere All at Once 209 ACTR Ke Huy Quan 132 ACTRS Michelle Yeoh 109 DIR/SCRN Daniel Kwan 183 ANI/INT/DOC RRR 126 EDIT/CIN Claudio Miranda 80 PD/CD/MUAH Catherine Martin 59 SCORE/SONG/SOUND/VFX Daniel Scheinert…

  • Oscar Shortlist Predictions

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    UPDATE 12/21/2022 – The Shortlists came out! How did I do? Take a look below: I seldom do predictions, but I couldn’t help myself. I’m not doing predictions for short films, but here are my predictions for the seven categories of Documentary Feature, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song),…

  • Mid-Season Most Valuable Players

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    If you know anything about fantasy sports and/or if you took a look at my strategy advice, then you know something about value-based drafting or value-based strategies for filling your roster. The idea is fairly simple, and to grasp the idea, you have to start with the basic fundamental of this very simple concept: Winning…

  • All Fantasy Teams after Matchup #3

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    In a VERY short three-day matchup, the all fantasy teams have a slightly different look. Daniels picked up enough points to find themselves on the 1st Team roster, and Michelle Yeoh surged from not being listed to being a 1st Teamer. Martin McDonagh, Glass Onion, RRR, and Dylan Cole & Ben Procter make their first…