LAMBcast #52: 2011 Academy Award Predictions

It's Nostraoscar time! Dylan, James, Nick, Tom and Marshall get our predicting hats on, as we try to guess who the nominess and winners will be for Best Picture, Director, and all of the Acting categories. One of us is bound to be right! BONUS: Hear Jason's fantastic promo he made for the LAMBcast, to be aired on his podcast, The Lair of the Unwanted (it's so good, I just had to play it here!).

Also on tap:

* Listener Feedback
* LAMB of the Week
* Trailer Talk: Hanna
* Last LAMB Standing

Music by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com).

For the LAMB of the Week, we take a look at LAMB #410, Big Thoughts From a Small Mind:


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Thanks for listening!

Poll results; new poll

Good to kjow that it's not just me - the majority of voters out there haven't seen a single one of the Academy's picks for Best Documentary OR Best Foreign Language Film, with 51% having seen none of the former and 57% for the latter. Also unsurprising were the top films that had been seen - Food, Inc., The Cove, and The White Ribbon. The rest of the distributors have failed us and their films, seemingly (or are the arthouses to blame?). I know Un Prohète is hitting some towns now, but I can't say that I've seen much for any of the others.

New polls want to know which films received an incorrect amount of love from Oscar - one poll for the too much love side, and another for the not enough.

PRESS RELEASE: Academy Awards nominations FYI

Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards® will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-nominated actress and Academy member Anne Hathaway. Sherak and Hathaway will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered.

Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, well don't get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details - I'll handle the rest.

LAMB Report #2

Thanks for tuning in to The LAMB Broadcasting Corporation - the LBC (not to be confused with any Snoop Dogg organization of the same name).

This week on LBC News, a special report on the trafficking of internet traffic, an expose on torture porn in the San Fernando Valley, and Andy Rooney chimes in with six things that made him angry in the last three minutes (spoiler alert: one of them is an umbrella). But first, these bulletins:

* The LAMB Oscar Pool. Win FABULOUS PRIZES! Think you're a Negrodamus for the new millenia? Try your hand at the LAMB Oscar Pool. Even better - the top scorer will win FABULOUS PRIZES from around the world. Well, that or a movie of your choice from Amazon (up to $19.99, not including tax/shipping). On top of all that, I'm opening up the contest to non-LAMBs as well; that's right, anyone can enter! Feel free to send along the info to friends and family - the more the merrier, right? (Though I will do a special post dedicated to the LAMBs choices.)

To play, simply go here (http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/324566) and make your picks for who you think will win and who you want to win. The winner of the fabulous prize will be the top scorer for the think portion. The deadline to sumbit your entries will be Saturday, February 23rd. - I don't have control over an exact time and am not sure what time Mister Poll will shut it down, so just be sure to have it completed before that day. One entry per person. If there are two entries with the same name, I will accept the first entry (though Mister Poll appears to lock them down by IP). I will coordinate the prize winning via email, so enter a valid email below or perish. If I could think of more legal-type mumbo jumbo, I would put it here; suffice it so say, that nothing is guaranteed and all decisions by me are final.

* The LAMB Forum. If you're a LAMB, but not yet a member (or are a member, but aren't active), it's time to join and particpate over at the LAMB forum. There you will find not only general movie/tv/music/etc talk, but hear about and contribute to the happenings here at the LAMB before they happen. Also, discuss and see traffic for the LAMB and/or your own sites and get/give advice on blogging in general. Thanks go to Jed from the Movie-Fanatic for putting the forum on the back end of his site.

* LAMB entries. I'm glad to see that the IMDb exposure has garnered us quite a few more new LAMBs. We currently have 37, and I still have a few more pending (I like to space them out so no one gets lost in the mix, and also so I don't go long without posting something new). LAMBs by month look like this:

October: 1 (Blog Cabins)
November: 12
December: 9
January: 9
February (to date, including ones not yet posted): 8

I most like the 8 in February, considering the month is not yet half over. Who will be the milestone 50th LAMB? Or 100th?

* Final note: to let all this news settle in, there will be no LAMB Devours the Oscars post for Monday. It will return Tuesday.