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My Oscar Picks!!!!

BY Dori Monson  on February 21, 2013 @ 7:48 pm (Updated: 5:27 am - 2/22/13 )

- Dori writes...

Sunday is when the stars come out to shine and Oscar is king. And in the spirit of this most special occiasion, I am offering my annual Oscar predictions. Vegas bookies quake at the uncanny accuracy of my picks every year. I'm not responsible for any financial losses, but you can bet your home on my freakishly precient picks...

BEST PICTURE:

- Amour - never heard of it

- Argo - sounds boring

- Beasts of the Southern Wild - never heard of it

- Django Unchained - sounds boring

- Les Miserables - that's how I would feel if I ever got dragged to it

- Life of Pi - The only one I've seen - it was kind of blaaahhhh....

- Lincoln - Didn't see it - I already heard how it ends

- Silver Linings Playbook - No interest

- Zero Dark Thirty - When did they start having nine Best Picture nominees? That's too many

 

BEST ACTOR:

- Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook - Don't get me wrong - I think he's a good looking guy... but no

- Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln - I have a weirdly philosophical problem with hypenated last names

- Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables - I don't know if he's American - but I'm guessing he's not - so that's a "no" from me

- River Phoenix - The Master - I think it's sad that he died outside The Viper Room

- Denzel Robinson - Flight - just watched this last weekend - I found it - and him - kind of boring

 

BEST ACTRESS:

- Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty - Never heard of her

- Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook - Never heard of her

- Emmanuelle Riva - Amour - Never heard of her

- Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild - Her name has an accent over the second "e" - my blog software doesn't allow me to include that - but that's an automatic disqualifyer in my book

- Naomi Watts - The Impossible - No

So there you go - mortgage your house and put it all on my picks - and I'll see you at the casino cashier window Monday morning!!

Dori Monson, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dori Monson is host of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays Noon-3) and the pre-game and post-game host for the Seattle Seahawks Radio Network. There are three words that Dori thinks best describe him - competitive, competitive and competitive.
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  • jjrep wrote...
    Hmmm...Am I the only comment here?
    February 21, 2013 7:22 pm
    Dori? I sense there's a shark to be jumped. I can only speculate that movies aren't your form of entertainment...But hey, you probably reached your quota for "Dori writes"...
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  • Mako wrote...
    Picks
    February 21, 2013 9:08 pm
    Same old story Dori-update your act-ZZZZ
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  • AKAF wrote...
    I'm with Dori...
    February 21, 2013 9:20 pm
    I don't need to watch Hollywood hypocrites that makes millions of dollars for a two or three month stint on set to pat themselves. Heck, I won't even watch them on either screen for entertainment. I'd rather drive down to Olympia city center and watch the drama live.
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  • mnpat wrote...
    With you Dori
    February 21, 2013 11:08 pm
    that's all I got
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  • daveismenotyou wrote...
    Who is Denzel Robinson?
    February 22, 2013 5:49 am
    Was that clever irony pretending you don't know who one of the biggest stars of the last 20 years is? Because that isn't funny, sorry. Also, why the rip on River VS Joaquin?
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  • Moondoggie wrote...
    Oscar interest
    February 22, 2013 6:51 am
    In the past, I would ignore the fact that many left leaning members of the Actors Guild used their vote to make political points rather than judge on artistic merit. Now that Ed Asner and others have mounted an assault against Zero-Dark-Thirty, it makes it impossible to ignore. I'll be doing something else come Sunday night.
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  • clevesside wrote...
    Who is Joaquin Phoenix....
    February 22, 2013 10:03 am
    ...what is "prescient," and what's the lazy producer doing beside dozing at the console? Also, there's an age factor showing up here, and that's not good, but it does happen, so welcome anyway. Somebody get our well-intended host out more often or get a lifetime suscription to NETFLIX.
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  • clevesside wrote...
    and lastly, how qualified.....
    February 22, 2013 10:05 am
    ... is "qualifyer?"
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    So,
    February 23, 2013 12:27 pm
    you listed the nominees, but you failed to list the ones you picked as winners...
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