Fantasy Film Studio League Update

For all of you purists who only check this blog when there's an update for the Fantasy Film Studio League - you are welcome for tonight's post. Also, you may have missed this weekend's post when I documented some of the process that Ann and I go through to pull off our annual Academy Awards party.

I'll keep tonight's update fairly brief. This weekend we saw the Screen Actor's Guild and Producer's Guild Awards. They only amounted to six total awards in the film categories (five for the SAG Awards and one for the Producer's Guild), but they muddled the waters of the award season picture thus far. Avatar, shut out for the SAG awards, was thought by many to be the run away favorite for the Producer's Guild Award for Best Picture. Surprisingly, the guild chose to award the Best Picture honor this year to The Hurt Locker. This is an interesting twist given the populist momentum that the Biggest Movie of All Time has going for it right now. By contrast, The Hurt Locker missed the SAG award for best picture and instead the honor went to Inlgorious Basterds. By the way, you may have read that Inglorious Basterds "swept" or "cleaned up" at the SAG awards this weekend. It won two awards. Two. One for Best Ensemble Cast (Best Picture equivalent) and one for Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Walz.

Defending Champion Scott Engroff recently changed his Best Picture from An Education to Inglorious Basterds (and he already had Christoph Walz for Best Supporting Actor), so this weekend was good for his studio. I happened to have The Hurt Locker for Best Picture along with Jeff Bridges (who won the SAG Award for Best Actor) and Mo'Nique (who picked up a Best Supporting Actress honor), so I did fairly well also. Nobody has Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side as Best Actress so the points for that award went unclaimed.

We're one week away from the last nominations of the season - The Academy Awards nominees will be announced Tuesday morning. You can count on an update from me that day and begin the countdown to the big event. The updated standings are below.

Cheers,

Danny.


Name / Nominations / Wins / Points
Danny Sarnowski / 37 / 14 / 116
Defending Champion Scott Engroff / 19 / 6 / 56
Paul Hogseth / 21 / 1 / 45
The Dekkers / 21 / 0 / 42
Ann Sarnowski / 16 / 2 / 38
Jake & Rachel / 13 / 0 / 26
Erin & Steve / 12 / 0 / 24
Dan Pavlovich / 10 / 1 / 23
Jimmy Gordon / 7 / 0 / 14