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February 18, 2009

A different kind of Oscar pool

Posted: 06:14 PM ET

Every year it's the same thing: You get together with friends, throw in a few bucks, look over the Oscar nominees list and make your picks.

The person with the most correct answers - or the most points (the Oscar pools I've been in give more points for picking best picture than, say, best animated short) - wins the pool. The tiebreaker, of course, is getting the closest to the ceremony's late-night ending time.

But a clever quartet of bloggers at PoopReading have come up with a twist on the old-fashioned Oscar pool. Call it Fantasy Oscars.

The four listed the 20 acting nominees, drafted each one fantasy-sports style, then cast their performers in movies based on titles provided by the party game Balderdash, making up all the plots.

The results are creative and hilarious. I hope some studio heads are reading - I'd actually pay to see some of these.

– Todd Leopold, CNN.com Entertainment Producer

P.S. And what are your Oscar picks? Send us an iReport.

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mark belnay   February 18th, 2009 9:10 pm ET

Slumdog Millionaire will win best picture and danny boyle will win best director...not even close in terms of choice!!!
d   February 18th, 2009 10:38 pm ET

I add a fun twist to my Oscar pools: the winner gets 75% of the take and the loser 25%. It's just as fun to watch the frantic scramble at the end for the worst showing as it is the best. Hint: do not tell those attending your Oscar party of this stunt until AFTER you collect their ballots.
dave r   February 19th, 2009 7:31 am ET

Another stupid fantasy game. That's one of the major problems with America today. Too many people living in a fantasy world. GROW UP!
Benst   February 19th, 2009 10:39 am ET

Since Mr. Leopold asked what are our Oscar picks; here is my response:

The Academy Awards are a dull, boring, 4 hour, narrow focused program.
The Most Critically Acclaimed films of the year, (according to RottenTomatoes.com and Metacritic.com) were WALL-E and The Dark Knight. Neither one was nominated for best picture. Instead, The Reader, a critical and commerical dud was nominated for b.p. Only 3 songs were nominated for best orginal song from a motion picture and it has been announced that on the show, only about 40 seconds of each song will be played. Peter Gabriel has stated he will Not sing a 40 second verison of his nominated song, (but he will be in the audience).

The Academy Awards also Refuses to honor stuntmen and stuntwomen who risk live and limb for the craft of movie making.

Last year's Academy Awards was the Least watched show in it's tv history. I hope all the fans of WALL-E , The Dark Knight, and other people, and songs, who were snubbed by the Oscars will not watch them.
L'Wren   February 19th, 2009 8:28 pm ET

Angelina's nomination is a frank embarrassment. She is to women what Tom Cruise is to male actors. Overexposed and we just are totally bored with their antics. That woman has got to get her ego in check. She is narcisstic and a father-hater. She wont win ever.
L'Wren   February 19th, 2009 8:29 pm ET

Keep two stale actors oft the stage please. Brangelina are boring.
Abraham Merchant   February 22nd, 2009 7:59 pm ET

Whose idea is to split TV screen into multiple things? This is so un-professional.

So many things on the screen. Can't see a damn thing.
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