will try to knock down each other the Movie nominees with my picks--

will only knock the major categories--

DIRECTOR

Stephen Daldry (The Hours)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
Spike Jonze (Adaptation)
Rob Marshall (Chicago)
Alexander Payne (About Schmidt)
Martin Scorsese (The Gangs of New York)

this is a tough call, since they all did excellent with direction

but even money goes to Jackson and Scorcese for their fantastic work in their films

2/1 odds: Rob Marshall--Chicago

7/1 odds:Payne--About Schmidt

10/1 odds:Jones--Adaptation

20/1 oddsaldry-The Hours

My pick:Peter Jackson-The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Chris Cooper (Adaptation) 20/1
Ed Harris (The Hours) 12/1
Paul Newman (Road to Perdition) even
Dennis Quaid (Far From Heaven) 3/1
John C. Reilly (Chicago) 2/1

My Pick:From when its release back in June, I believe the award should and probably will go to Paul Newman, who put in an amazing performance as the Head Gangster, who treated Tom Hanks as like his son. He was that damn good.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kathy Bates (About Schmidt) 12/1
Cameron Diaz (The Gangs of New York) 7/1
Queen Latifah (Chicago) 25/1
Susan Sarandon (Igby Goes Down) 10/1
Meryl Streep (Adaptation)even

My Pick: This was a much tougher category, but out of all the actresses it was down to Streep, who put an amazing performance, but its Diaz who gets my pick, as the pickpocket thief who fell in love with the son of an Irishman in Gangs of New York. Her performace was one to write home about.

LEAD ACTOR - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Nicolas Cage (Adaptation) even
Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down) 25/1
Richard Gere (Chicago) 2/1
Hugh Grant (About A Boy) 7/1
Adam Sandler (Punch-Drunk 10/1
Love)

My Pick: Another tough category choice as from the beginning I thought Nicholas Cage did an amazing turn in two roles, but Richard Gere did a spectacular turn as the Lawyer in the musical that has been turning many heads. However my pick is Cage, but look for Adam Sandler to pull a possible upset

LEAD ACTRESS - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary) 30/1
Goldie Hawn (The Banger Sisters) 20/1
Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) 2/1
Renee Zellweger (Chicago) even
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) 7/1

My Pick: This is what I call the shit category, and the winner might not get an oscar nomination, even though the bottom three Vardolos who was simply amazing in My Big Fat Greek Wedding may get the award, because the canceled out votes that Zellwegger and Zeta-Jones may receive. 2nd. Choice Zellwegger

LEAD ACTOR - DRAMA

Adrien Brody (The Pianist) 2/1
Michael Caine (The Quiet 10/1
American)
Daniel Day-Lewis (The Gangs of New York) even
Leonardo DiCaprio (Catch Me If You Can)7/1
Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)2/1

My Pick: This has got to be the toughest category to call, Day-Lewis was amazing as the SOB in Gangs of New York, however he may get canceled out because of Leo being nominated in Catch Me If You Can, to set it up for my pick:Jack Nicholson, nuff said.

LEAD ACTRESS - DRAMA

Salma Hayek (Frida) 12/1
Nicole Kidman (The Hours) 4/1
Diane Lane (Unfaithful)7/1
Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)even
Meryl Streep (The Hours)17/1

My Pick: That is the more convincing category, and at Oscar time, these five should once again receive nominations, but because of the canceled out vote of the Three, The Hours co-stars, Streep, Kidman, and Moore, Diane Lane should walk away with award.

BEST PICTURE - COMEDY

About A Boy 20/1
Adaptation even
Chicago 2/1
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 7/1
Nicholas Nickleby 12/1

My Pick: Adaptation..nuff said

BEST PICTURE - DRAMA

About Schmidt-4/1
The Hours-7/1
The Gangs of New York-4/1
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers-even
The Pianist-2/1

My Pick: Roman Polanski's The Pianist has been receiving criticial aclaim, and The Two Towers has received much merit in its battle action sequences reminiscent of another Oscar Winner Gladiator, but my upset pick About Schmidt-movie was very good and must see.

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**********FIRST ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE PICKS*************
I was thinking it would be fun for people to make some quick picks and see who gets the most right when the awards are over.
Only one rule.
no cheating and posting after the awards are over
here a my picks.

Quick Note before I start: Movie God already made some picks. I hope he don't mind me turning it into a game I just thought it would be fun hope everyone else does aswell.

1 BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
*THE PIANIST
2 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
*SALMA HAYEK Frida
3 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
*ADRIEN BRODY The Pianist
4 BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*CHICAGO
5 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*RENEE ZELLWEGER Chicago
6 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*NICOLAS CAGE Adaptation
7 BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
* MARTIN SCORSESE Gangs of New York
8 BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
* CHARLIE KAUFMAN
and DONALD KAUFMAN Adaptation

Im skipping BEST SUPPORTING ROLE BY AN ACTRESS/ACTOR.
You don't have to show your picks like this you can just do it like this.
Example: what my list would look like.
1 *THE PIANIST
2*SALMA HAYEK Frida
3 *ADRIEN BRODY The Pianist
4 and so on... will be fine basing your self on my order and please Remember I skipped BEST SUPPORTING ROLE BY AN ACTRESS/ACTOR.

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In case of a tie here are the tie breakers please pick them aswell.

*TIE BREAKERS

1 BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
“LOSE YOURSELF”- 8 MILE
Music & Lyrics by: Eminem

If needed

2 BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
*THE CRIME OF FATHER AMARO (El Crimen del Padre Amaro) (MEXICO) Thats the only one I saw.

whoever gets the first one right wins automaticly no need for the second tie breaker and if we still have a tie after both tie breakers whoever posted first wins.

A full list for the Nominations are here so you can make your own picks.

http://www.hfpa.org/nominations2003.html

Winner gets bragging rights for a whole year and gets the title of the guy who really knows his shit/movies.

Sorry for any Spelling errors I did this pretty fast and I was half asleep.
well thats it I hope you guys have as much fun as I did making up this game. if you have any question please post

**************WARNING IF YOU EDIT YOUR POST FOR ANY REASON EVEN IF ITS ONLY ONE TIME AFTER YOU SUBMITED YOUR POST THE FIRST TIME YOUR DISQUALIFIED ******************************
So Be sure to do it right the first time oround.

And yeah I know I edited this post but only to make this rule up and I won't edit again.

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Just in case so no one thinks I cheated.

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Best Motion Picture: (they left out some awesome movies)

Pianist

Best Actress:

Kidman

Best Actor:

Nicholson

Best Comedy/Musical:

Adaptation

Best Actress in Comedy/Musical:

Zeta-Jones

Best Actor in Comedy/Musical

Sandler

Best Foreign Film:

City of God

Best Supporting Actress:

Streep

Best Supporting Actor:

Cooper

Best Director:

Jonze

Best Screenplay:

Kaufman

Best Score:

Bernstein

Best Song: (if madonna wins, i'll kill myself)

Lose Yourself

Best TV Series: (only tough choice on here, all my favorite shows)

The Shield

Best TV Performance:

Chikilis

Best Comedy/Musical TV Series:

Friends

Best TV Actress in Comedy/Musical:

Kaczmarek

Best TV Actor in Comedy/Musical:

David

Best Mini-Series:

Taken

that's all i'm doing the rest is too much.... edited because i messed it up.... not cheating...

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BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Wingnut Films; New Line Cinema

(Runners up:)
ABOUT SCHMIDT
Michael Besman/Harry Gittes Prod.; New Line Cinema

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

SALMA HAYEK
Frida

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

JACK NICHOLSON
About Schmidt

(Runners up:)
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Catch Me if You Can

BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

ADAPTATION
Columbia Pictures/Intermedia Films; Sony Pictures Releasing

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL
Secretary

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

ADAM SANDLER
Punch-Drunk Love

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

CITY OF GOD (BRAZIL)
02 Filmes/VideoFilmes; Miramax Films

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

KATHY BATES (Although the nude scene was really creepy

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

PAUL NEWMAN
Road to Perdition

BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE

PETER JACKSON
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE

ALEXANDER PAYNE and JIM TAYLOR
About Schmidt

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
(WHY was lotr or road to perdition not nominated? Hmm?? HMM??)

PHILIP GLASS
The Hours

BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
(Everyone nominated sucks, bleh)

“THE HANDS THAT BUILT AMERICA” - Gangs of New York
Music & Lyrics by: U2

BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

SIX FEET UNDER (HBO)
HBO

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

RACHEL GRIFFITHS
Six Feet Under

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

PETER KRAUSE
Six Feet Under

BEST TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM (HBO)
HBO

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

JANE KACZMAREK
Malcolm in the Middle

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

LARRY DAVID
Curb Your Enthusiasm

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS: TAKEN (SCI FI)
DreamWorks TV

That is all.

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Nice Picks guys, But there is no need to pick something for every category but only the 8 I picked and the 2 tie breakers those are the only ones that will count to make the game easier but if you want to pick more feel free to do so and I figured it was going to be pretty hard for ppl not to edit so I changed the rules a bit I will close the game one Hour before the awards start and I will post everyones edit time so feel free to edit just don't do it close to award time.

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All very good picks...

this is your thread xchemical...I just merged it to get my picks in.

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Originally posted by MovieGod
All very good picks...

this is your thread xchemical...I just merged it to get my picks in.

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yeah its cool np. Just wish more ppl would of played maybe for the oscars. And I will try to start the Thread/Game earlier so more ppl get a chance to play. hey MovieGod would any Moderator have a problem with me giving out a real price from my own pocket like 100 Cdrw's or something cool like that. Cdrws and other computer software and hardware is really cheap or free for me. I would like to do that for my next game do you think that would be cool? I plan to do with the oscars that would get alot of ppl involved and it would be really cool.

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Its cool with me, but, uh, Pho and X69 really run the show.

If they say yes, run with it...was planning to do something similar..PM me the details.

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GAME RESULTS


PLAYERS

XCheMiCaL MovieGod DarkSlide Dawgy

Key=
**CORRECT***
___WRONG___

1 BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
*The Hours
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2 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE -
DRAMA
*Nicole Kidman
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3 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
*Jack Nicholson
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4 BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*CHICAGO
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5 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*RENEE ZELLWEGER

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6 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
*Richard Gere
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7 BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
* MARTIN SCORSESE
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8 BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
* ALEXANDER PAYNE
and JIM TAYLOR About Schmidt
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XCheMiCaL MovieGod DarkSlide Dawgy

3 *** 1 1/2 **/ 2** 2**
WINNER

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Big Question Mark:

*The Hours Best picture Drama WTF? No one seen that shit coming big upset.

Huh's?:

*Richard Gere? Okay whatever but even he thinks Nicolas cage should of won.

Game Notes:

*MovieGod Picked two ppl for best director thats why he only got half a point for that one.

Next Time:

*I will try this one more time for the oscars but hopefully if everything goes to plan with real Prices and lot more ppl maybe MovieGod can help me out with this we will see.

Final Words:

*Yes,I won but I would much rather lose and have alot of ppl play I hope next time we will have a much bigger and better game and have much more fun thanks for playing guys and hope to see you guys the next time.
late

*if I made a mistake please let me know.

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hah- kids want violence- get them sick of it at a young age, then they won't be looking for it when they're older- providing them with panzy-ass kangaroos and other shit like that just makes them want to beat the shit outta the homos that make it..... well maybe the kids dont, - but i sure as hell do!
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ha, i only got 2 of em right, pooooo :|

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Pretty shitty awards show if you ask me. Oscars don't piss me off.

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The Hours?? THE HOURS?! That movie blew ass chunks!

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