Oscar Predictions for the Final Year of 2012

The pieces are in place for Oscar at Videorama, we have special sections for past winners of the coveted Best Picture category set up at the Lombard and St. Johns locations. That's right, this year the aging (or some might say decaying) dinosaur known as "Oscar" hits the stage on our television sets for the 84th time. It sounds like they're going at it from a whole new angle: Billy Crystal is hosting again,

though whether or not he is actually a human is up for debate. Is he an android? A melting clone? Well, undead vampire seems just as likely. But I kid! Of course then there's the nominations. Best Picture nominees include a Steven Spielberg film! a Woody Allen film! a Martin Scorsese FAMILY film (??!?), while George Clooney and Brad Pitt are up for Best Actors (NO WAY!) and Glenn Close and Meryl Streep are both up for Best Actress (anyone else get them confused with each other?).

Well if it sounds like this years Academy Awards will be another self congratulatory name dropping has been schmooze fest, I might suggest you head down to the nearest Videorama and rent something that is awesome, and perhaps overlooked by this so-called DECIDER of what is an award winning performance! Dennis Hopper in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (found in Kristopher's Picks at the St. Johns location) is commonly known as one of the greatest overlooked performances of the last century. Who could forget the huffing, puffing, cursing lunatic known as Frank that he portrays? Or the tortured genius of Robocop, the cyborg-cop epic directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Peter Weller (which happens to feature that one guy from ER melting!)? Or maybe you wanna go the way of the renter who wants to see the past winners, like Tommy Lee Jones in his Best Supporting Actor performance in The Fugitive! I DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE!!!! * Harrison Ford growling.

You might as well rent 4 previous winners if you're looking to save money, it's still rent 3 get a 4th one free on everything but New Releases at the St. Johns and N. Lombard locations, and New Releases are still $2 for overnight. As for the Best Picture nominations, I kind of think that the Academy is going to decide that it's been a while since Woody Allen has won anything, they like to decide when "it's time" for certain people. I think it's too bad they don't like movies pertaining to outerspace or other dimensions. When has a movie about goblins from outerspace won anything other then Best Visual Effects?!?! Exactly!!