Category: Trivia and Games
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Results: Film Fun Friday #3
We had some terrific participation this week and here are your answers/results. If you want to see and/or play the game before answering, you can get to it at this link: Film Fun Friday #3 Game: Identify the Poster The foreign poster was indeed Bad and the Beautiful as Lallolupo correctly guessed. He also correctly…
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Film Fun Friday #3
Welcome once again to Film Fun Friday where we want you to have fun. If you have further suggestions on how we can improve, ideas for other games you’d like to see or just want to tell us how much fun you’re having, feel free to drop us a Comment. If you would like to…
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Results: Film Fun Friday #2
We had a few correct answers this week, so here are the results: Game: Identify the Poster Sabin and Lallolupo got the foreign-lingo poster correct: Sometimes a Great Notion. Lallolupo was the only one to get the second poster correct, however. It was for The Hustler, which you can see in its original color at…
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Film Fun Friday #2
We have more fun coming your way for the weekend. Don’t forget to post your answers before Monday when a separate post will reveal the answers to this week’s questions. (Please use the [.spoiler] [./spoiler] tags around your answers so that others can try to guess without seeing the answer) Game: Identify the Poster Back…
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Film Fun Friday #1 Results
Game: Identify the Poster The results are in and Peter got both right.
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Film Fun Friday #1
After the success of last week’s Identify the Poster game, I’ve decided to expand our game selection on Fridays and change the name to Film Fun Friday. The change will mean I can present a wider selection of games for everyone to enjoy. Some will still require the use of SPOILER tags ([.spoiler.][./.spoiler.] without the…
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Identify the Poster: Results
We had several guesses over the weekend and most of them were correct (or easily cheated 😉 ). tarek, lallolupo and Bob all got The Birds while lallolupo, kaytodd and Bob all got Panic in the Streets. At the left is the full, non-negative version of the poster for The Birds. There is not a…
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Identify the Poster
Each week, I will be doing a poster game called Identify the Poster. I will take two posters for films from anywhere between 1915 and 2009 and having a little fun. Although I may change up what type of game each week, here are two posters. One is a negative image with all identifiable words…
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Best Picture
And so we’ve reached the end of our nearly month long examination of all categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. This is, of course, the big one, so we’ve saved it until last. We hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage and want you to stick around through the coming months as we add new articles…
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Best Visual Effects
This is our penultimate post and how fitting that such a sure thing category is being revealed between two undecided races. Nevertheless, here are our predictions on the Visual Effects category, some facts and favorites. Trivia: Five Facts The first award was given out for Visual Effects alone in 1963 and has been given out…
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Best Actress
(Updated: 3/5/10, 12:44p – Added Wes’ info) It’s become one of the most watched races of the year and could very easily go down to the wire. Below are our predictions for the Bullock/Streep face off, plus five facts and our favorites. Trivia: Five Facts The category was one of the first introduced in 1927/28.…
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Best Cinematography
(Updated: 3/5/10, 12:46p – Added Wes’ info) Our Post-ASC predictions are now ready to be revealed as we continue our look at the categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Here are five facts on the Cinematography award, our predictions and our favorites. Trivia: Five Facts Among the first categories ever created, Cinematography has been…
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Best Sound Mixing & Sound Editing
The sound awards are always one of the hardest to predict simply because it’s hard to know what the Academy is hearing. They’ve gone for classic, quality sound mixes and they’ve gone for aural deluges with no coherence. We’ll give you a few facts, share our predictions and our favorites and least favorites. Trivia: Five…
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Best Costume Design
With the Costume Designers Guild having given out their prizes, it’s now time for us to weigh in on the Costume Design award for the Oscars. In addition to our predictions, you’ll find five facts and our favorite and least favorite wins. Trivia: Five Facts Introduced in 1948, the category started out with Black-and-White and…
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Best Actor
(Updated 3/5/10, 12:50p – Added Wes’ info) As we get closer and closer to the Oscars, more of the top categories will be revealed. Here are some facts about the Best Actor category, along with our predictions and favorite and least favorite winners in the Best Actor category. Trivia: Five Facts The category was among…
