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OSCAR ODDS & ENDS The Oscars are billed as ’s most exciting and glamorous night, but as any viewer will tell you, by the time the show hits the inevitable three-and-a-half-hour mark, rigor mortis is perilously close to setting in. That’s why we at Fade In are providing you with your very own printable ballot (along with assorted exotic tiebreakers), so that you can compete with friends and family, and bring out that degenerate gambler that you always knew lurked inside you.

Best Picture Best Film Editing c c Avatar c The Blind Side c District 9 c District 9 c c An Education c c The Hurt Locker c Precious c Inglourious Basterds c Precious Best Original Screenplay c A Serious Man c , The Hurt Locker c Up c , Inglourious Basterds c Up in the Air c Alessandro Camon and , The Messenger c Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man Best Director c Peter Docter, , Tom McCarthy, Up c , The Hurt Locker c , Avatar Best Adapted Screenplay c , Precious c Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9 c , Up in the Air c Nick Hornby, An Education c Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds c , , , , Best c Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious c , Crazy Heart c Jason Reitman, , Up in the Air c , Up in the Air c , A Single Man Best Documentary Feature c , Invictus c Burma VJ c Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker c The Cove c Food, Inc. Best Actress c The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg c , The Blind Side and the Pentagon Papers c , The Last Station c Which Way Home c , An Education c , Precious Best Foreign Film c , Julie & Julia c - Ajami c Argentina - El Secreto de sus Ojos Best Supporting Actor c Peru - The Milk of Sorrow c , Invictus c France - Un Prophete c , The Messenger c Germany - The White Ribbon c , The Last Station c , The Lovely Bones Best Original Score c , Inglourious Basterds c Avatar c Fantastic Mr. Fox Best Supporting Actress c The Hurt Locker c Penelope Cruz, Nine c Sherlock Holmes c Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air c Up c , Crazy Heart c Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Best Cinematography c Mo’nique, Precious c Avatar c Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Best Animated Feature Film c The Hurt Locker c Coraline c Inglourious Basterds c Fantastic Mr. Fox c The White Ribbon c The Princess and the Frog c The Secret of Kells c Up Best Original Song Best Sound Mixing c “Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog , Music and c Avatar Lyric by Randy Newman c The Hurt Locker c “Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog , c Inglourious Basterds Music and Lyric by Randy Newman c Star Trek c “Loin de Paname” from Paris 36 , Music by Reinhardt Wagner c Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Lyric by Frank Thomas c “Take It All” from Nine , Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston ThE TiEBrEAkErS c “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart , Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett Question you would most like to hear a red carpet host ask a celebrity Best Costume Design c “Who are you wearing?” c Bright Star c “Are you excited?” c Coco Before Chanel c “Who are you sleeping with, and is there a sex tape?” c The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus c Nine Person with the most beautiful dress c The Young Victoria c Sandra Bullock c Best Art Direction c Eddie Izzard hosting Spirit Awards c Avatar two days earlier c The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus c Nine The number of times CAA will be thanked c Sherlock Holmes c Over 5 1/2 c The Young Victoria c Under 5 1/2 c Doesn’t matter — CAA owns the Oscars Best Makeup c Il Divo Number of standing ovations c Star Trek c 3 or more c The Young Victoria c 2 or less c 4 from James Cameron himself, every time his Best Visual Effects name is mentioned c Avatar c District 9 Segment during which everyone in the world watching c Star Trek will simultaneously take a much-needed restroom break c Shorts and documentary awards presentations Best Documentary (Short Subject) c Irrelevant montages c China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province c Each outrè dance number c The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner c The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant Winner with the longest acceptance speech c Music by Prudence c Jeff Bridges c Rabbit à la c Sandra Bullock c Mo’Nique Best Short Film (Animated) c Christoph Waltz c French Roast c Some foreign guy you’ve never heard of who has to be c Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty dragged kicking and screaming from the mic c The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) c Logorama Number of people who will ramble on too long and c A Matter of Loaf and Death get their speech cut off c 4 or more Best Short Film (Live Action) c 3 or less c The Door c Anyone from the Academy who tries to explain how the new c Instead of Abracadabra preferential voting system works c Kavi c Miracle Fish Social cause that will be mentioned the most in c The New Tenants acceptance speeches c Support for the troops Best Sound Editing c Support for the Haitian relief effort c Avatar c Support for the Kardashians to find a cure for c The Hurt Locker pathological exhibitionism c Inglourious Basterds c Star Trek Who will get more laughs c Up c Co-host c Co-host c Academy president Tom Sherak while telling everyone what a spectacular year it’s been for film