HomeGeorge Clooney's Oscar picks
Feb 22, 2008, 02:24 PM | by Adrienne Day
Categories: Oscars 2008
If you're like the rest of us movie geeks — and we assume you are
if you are reading this — chances are you're engaging in some sort of
office Oscar pool. Now, far be it from us to tell you how to lose
spend your money, but we may just have a foolproof way to ensure your
financially sound Oscar-pooling future. This advice comes from none
other than George Clooney, who in this Time magazine article
claims he's never lost an Oscar pool, and then generously opens his
ballot to the world. (Of course he doesn't say how long he's been
pooling — this could be his first year, who knows? — but it's a nice
gesture nonetheless).
I met George once, at a panel for a screening of his (quite excellent) movie, Good Night, and Good Luck, and he struck me as a pretty shrewd dude. (He also makes a point of predicting a shutout for his own Michael Clayton, pictured, which I take as a sign of levelheadedness.) For this reason alone, I'm inclined to believe him when he says that Marion Cotillard will win Best Actress for La Vie en Rose, even though I'm gunning for Julie Christie in Away From Her. Still, other Academy voters and some of our own Oscar odds experts might beg to differ with Clooney's choices.
How about you, PopWatchers? You inclined to do a last-minute switcheroo, or do you think George is full of hot air?
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