I have made a couple of small modifications to the sidebar on the site to provide more data.

The first change you may notice is the simplified Update Schedule. To see what is scheduled to post on a given day of the week, just hover over the day and a pop up will show you what is being updated.

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So, June is turning out to be an exceptionally busy month here and I wanted to give you a heads up on some things, get your advice on some of those and then get excited about something else.

Item #1: Thursday (tomorrow, June 10), I will be going into the Dentist to have my wisdom teeth extracted. At 34, I've been told that it's a much more difficult healing process. Anyone out there had such an experience and can give me advice on what to expect?

But one thing is for certain, I will most likely be out of it tomorrow. So, later today, I'll be posting the fifth week of the Summer Box Office Prediction Contest for your perusal. In addition, I've prepped the next Film Fun Friday in case I am still zonked on Friday and can just hit "Publish" and stuff.

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Our very own Tripp Burton today is a proud papa. Little Elaina Lynn Burton entered the world at 2:32am. She's 8 lbs., 11 oz., 22 in.

Congratulations!

Please be aware that Tripp may be conspicuously absent from our updates for a little while, but we understand perfectly why.

The forums are back up again. Thank you for your patience.

The forums are down temporarily. We are actively working on trying to get them back up as soon as possible, please be patient.

The winners have been announced for the 2009 American Cinema Editors Awards. Below are the results.

American Cinema Editors

Best Editing, Drama

The Hurt Locker

Best Editing, Comedy

The Hangover

Best Editing, Animated

Up

Best Editing, Documentary

The Cove
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Cinema Sight is live and operational.

Those of you who have been following our transition may have noticed the changes to the front page of the site and been wondering what's going on. The Oscar Guy was established in 1996 as the ultimate in pre-Oscar coverage. Since then, I've been expanding my coverage to include film reviews, previews and many other features that have taken us from being just an Oscar fan site to a full-fledged film website.

With my contributors (Peter J. Patrick, Tripp Burton and Wes Huizar) in tow, we have launched cinemasight.com, where our motto is "Looking at Film from every angle". While we will continue our coverage of the Academy Awards and the awards leading up to it, and we will continue everything that has made our site great, we will be doing so under a new name and look. For all those who have supported us over the years, I thank you and hope that you will continue following us on our journey through the self-discovery, reflection and examination of film as an art form, an entertainment medium and an educational tool.

This new name, Cinema Sight, represents our varied views of film criticism and appreciation as well as our effort look into the past and the future at everything that makes film so wonderful and the reasons why we became so enthralled with the medium.

For the next few months, we will be forcibly re-directing your traffic from oscarguy.com to cinemasight.com to help streamline the transition. However, you will want to update any bookmarks you have to reflect the new location because the original site will be going through a transformation of its own and will become little more than a personal webpage for myself.

So, thank you all for coming with me on this new journey and helping to make this site a wonderful place to be.

As you may be noticing, this page has been going through several changes today as I restructure and redesign it to its new form. My apologies if this is distracting or difficult to look at. In the end, it will be worth it, but for now, it does look like a mess.

Please stick with me as I make these transitions to a new layout as I'm working with other people's code, so I don't always know where the information I want to change is located, so it may take a few days for everything to start looking normalized again.

Thanks for your patience.

Starting late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, I will be transitioning this site to a new one. In order to do this, I will need to stop all updates to the site before the transition. My intention is to keep your login info and settings the same in the transition, but I make no promises.

If all goes smoothly, it will be back up and operational later in the day on Sunday. If not, I don't know. Thankfully, we've got a nice lull between the Oscar nominations and anything of significant importance (the Annie Awards and the USC Scripter award are it for the next week). Hopefully you like what I will be doing with everything.

When everything is said and done, for a short period of time, there will be an automatic re-direct, but you WILL need to change your bookmarks at that time or else they will stop working after that period. How things will be transferred after that time has no been decided.

Just giving everyone a heads up that while they may still be able to post after this time, their posts may get lost in the transition.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Well, it's another year and another decade, but it's still Oscar season. May we all have a Happy New Year and may our upcoming months of Oscar fun be filled with surprises, but only pleasant ones.

Of course, we still have plenty of precursors left before The Big Night. So, here's the breakdown of what's to come in January. Keep in mind, dates marked with "?" are not guaranteed dates, but are based on last year's dates. Even if you lose track of this post, you can always reference the Calendar in the sidebar on the right. There's also a guide to the entries below.
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