WooWee! It's my Super Bowl!! The nominations have been revealed and now it is awards season--Red carpets, bets, viewing parties and going to the movies to catch up on what I missed. Below are a list of the nominations, the movies I saw (or want to see), and those who I think will win. Please let me know what you guys think!

Best Picture
Amour
Argo (want to see)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (want to see)
Django Unchained (undecided)
Les Miserables (saw)
Life of Pi (don't want to see)
Lincoln (don't want to see) (Predicted winner)
Silver Linings Playbook (want to see)
Zero Dark Thirty (want to see)

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln (Will win)
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables (want to win)
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour (Will win)
Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild (Want to win)
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained (Will win)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master (Want to win)
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables (Will Win, ugly wins over naked)
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln (Will win)
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino (Will win)
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal (Want to win)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio (Want to win)
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin,
Life of Pi, David Magee (Will Win)
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature:
Brave (saw) (Will win, want to win)
Frankenweenie (want to see)
ParaNorman (want to see)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (saw)
Wreck-It Ralph  (want to see)

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Laundry Day by Maurie J. Manning

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Laundry Day: A shoeshine boy in early 20th century NYC goes on an adventure to find the owner of a lost red scarf. He encounters immigrants from all over the world as he hops from fire escape to clothesline. The illustrations are engaging and have few visual gags. The foreign phrases gives this book an extra boost, and could probably be used as a title for the Social Studies Common Core Standard. But I am confused as to what category this book falls into. Is it a picture book or is it a graphic novel? It has panels like a comic but I'm not sure.



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Deep Desires by Charlotte Stein

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Simply perfect erotic novella. Sexy, emotional, intense, scary, addictive, and has an HEA.



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