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Fug Nation’s 2010 Oscar Picks: Final Ballot

Mar 5, 2010 By Heather AT 7:00 am

I have learned so much this week. For instance, Fug Nation thinks Gabby Sidibe is going to win on Sunday night — which I think would be FABULOUS — and is deeply torn about which movie featured the best sound mixing. I’m serious; it’s the tightest race of them all, in your eyes. Avatar and The Hurt Locker tied with 24 percent of the vote, and behind them, Inglourious Basterds and Star Trek were right behind them, each with 22 percent. Sorry, Transformers II: Revenge Of Michael Bay! You’re out in the cold. AGAIN.

Y’all also have incredibly strong feelings about fonts. One of you likened Helvetica to Cate Blanchett (in a complimentary way, in case anyone out there divergently thinks Cate Blanchett is, like, the Lucida Console of actresses), which may be the most eye-opening statement of this entire event, because I know nobody who feels that positively about Helvetica. That’s why you guys rule. You crack us up every single day. And, further, to our query about which font is harem pants if Papyrus is leggings and Comic Sans is jumpsuits: “Harem pants are obviously Wingdings: amusing at first, then making you want to lob your computer out a very high window.” That is a compelling argument. 
HOWEVER: Here is your final Oscar ballot. Caveat: It looks terrible, because I had to throw it together super fast, and I didn’t have time to figure out why it was printing slightly blurry even though it looks fine on my computer and I optimized it for the Web. What can you do? I am an amateur at things. I used PAPYRUS, for God’s sake, people! I am a Philistine!
I bolded the things you collectively picked, but included all the percentages, just in case — GASP — our majority was wrong and you want to know by how much. And if you are in a minority that turns out to be correct, nothing is more satisfying than knowing how far out on a limb you went in the name of what I will call rightitude. 
Enjoy! Hopefully we’ll at least score an A-minus on the big night. But one very important question remains, based on things that have made prominent appearances in the comments:

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Fug Nation’s 2010 Oscar Picks: Part V

Mar 4, 2010 By Heather AT 7:00 am

Perhaps on the strength of the Captain Von Trapp photo, lots of you said you were rooting for Christopher Plummer to take home the Supporting Actor trophy on Sunday… but most of you went all practical and voted for the overwhelming favorite Christoph Waltz. You also picked Inglourious Basterds and Precious for the screenplay awards, and in The Great Papyrus Kerfuffle of 2010, we got the following comments: “I used Papyrus for my 10th grade English persuasive PowerPoint presentation, entitled, ‘The Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Achievement or Extraterrestrial Involvement,’” and, “If Comic Sans is pantsuits and Papyrus is leggings-as-pants, then which font is harem pants?” I nominate Brush Script.

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Fug Nation’s 2010 Oscar Picks: Part IV

Mar 3, 2010 By Heather AT 7:00 am

Yesterday, y’all decided that Michael Giacchino’s Up score most likely to win; used the phrase “vagina potatoes” in the comments, leading me to wonder who might find this site because of Googling that exact concept, and if you are one such person, hello, and wow, you are probably super disappointed with what you’ve seen here; picked Jeff Bridges and Colin Firth as the two front-runners in the Best Actor category; and determined that Papyrus should die a thousand fiery deaths for all its pretensions of class and creativity. This will teach me to pick a font at random without actually thinking about it.

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Fug Nation’s 2010 Oscar Picks: Part III

Mar 2, 2010 By Heather AT 7:00 am
Okay, to update: Fug Nation thinks Kathryn Bigelow is going to win Best Director (and that James Cameron shouldn’t even come in second); that Food, Inc., will win Best Feature-Length Documentary; and that for however dorky and played-out the Papyrus font is, it will never be as bad as Comic Sans (double agreed).
But none of that matters because when Intern George smiles, fonts become angels.

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Fug Nation’s 2010 Oscar Picks: Part II

Mar 1, 2010 By Heather AT 7:00 am

So far, y’all seem pretty sure Mo’Nique will run off with the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, expressed some serious Up backlash, and are deeply split when it comes to picking the Best Sound Mixing Winner. Some of you also hate our use of the font Papyrus in the graphic, which… I wish we could say we’d put much thought into it, but we pretty much just picked it at random off a long list. Such is life. Hopefully, this next round of categories for the Fug Nation Oscar Ballot will give you every bit as much to discuss:

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Fug Nation’s 2010 Oscar Picks: Part I

Feb 26, 2010 By Heather AT 7:00 am

Okay, so we know this doesn’t have much to do with clothes. But everyone loves an Oscar pool, and we know you guys enjoy rocking the vote. And who doesn’t cherish correctly the whims of Hollywood’s movie elite? So we figured we’d put up one post every day for the next five days asking you guys to pick your winners in every category. Then on Friday, March 5, we’ll post Fug Nation’s consensus Oscar ballot, and on Sunday, March 7, when the neverending telecast airs, we can see how we did.

We’ve tried to spread out the sexy fun categories, so everything will be presented in no particular order here. Without further ado, here are the first few categories for you to pick — and feel free to discuss your votes in the comments.

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