See the OSCAR© 2008 winners

The Prizes:
Grand Prize:  $500 Cash – one winner picked at random from contestants who forecast the greatest number of Oscar winners.  Three ways to enter – fill out the ballot below, fill out a ballot at Video Headquarters or pick up a ballot print in The Keene Sentinel every Thursday and Saturday during the contest period.
2nd Prize: $100 Cash winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot. 
3rd Prize: Tickets to a Colonial Theater event, plus a chauffeured driven limo ride – provided by Adventure Limo, plus dinner for two. winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot.
1st runner up: $100 Video Rental Card from Video Headquarters, winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot.
2nd runner up: $50 Cash, winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot.
3rd runner up: $50 Video Rental Card from Video Headquarters, winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot.
Honorable Mention: $25 Video Rental Card from Video Headquarters, winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot.
Random winners: Movie tickets, restaurant gift cards. Winner selected at random from all entries to the Viewer’s Choice ballot.

And the winners are...

Grand Prize: Wanda VanCor of Winchester

2nd Prize: Tami Uvena of Winchester
3rd Prize: JB Rote of Keene
1st Runner Up: Deegan Foster of Antrim
2nd Runner Up: Kathleen O'Donnell of Keene
3rd Runner Up: Marilyn Simons of Jaffrey
Honorable Mention: Aryana Ireland of Winchester

Random Winners:

2 passes to The Colonial Theatre &
Dinner for 2 at Colorado Steak House: Jacqueline McGinley

2 passes to The Colonial Theatre &
Dinner for 2 at Papagallos: Catherine Mazzola

2 passes to The Colonial Theatre &
Dinner for 2 at Papagallos: Nancy Cressy

2 passes to The Colonial Theatre &
Dinner for 2 at Colorado Steak House:Shar Burdick

2 passes to The Keene State College Theater: Mark Nelson

2 passes to The Colonial Theatre: Joyce Lavoie

2 passes to The Colonial Theatre: Mike Anastasio

2 passes to The Keene State College Theater Mare-Ann Jarvela

2 passes to The Keene State College Theater Karen Perkins

2 passes to The Keene State College Theater Kevin Russell

AND THE OSCAR© GOES TO...

Best Picture

 "Atonement"
  "Juno"
  "Michael Clayton"
  "No Country for Old Men"
 "There Will Be Blood"

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

 George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
  Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
 Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
  Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
  Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

 Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
  Julie Christie in "Away from Her"
  Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
  Laura Linney in "The Savages"
  Ellen Page in "Juno"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
  Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
  Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War"
  Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"
  Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There"
  Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"
  Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"
  Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
  Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"

DIRECTING

 Alejandro Julian Schnabel for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
  Jason Reitman for "Juno"
  Tony Gilroy for "Michael Clayton"
  Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for "No Country for Old Men"
  Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 "Beaufort" - Israel
  "The Counterfeiters" - Austria
  "Katyn" - Poland
  "Mongol" - Kazakhstan
  "12" - Russia

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 

 "Persepolis"
 "Ratatouille"
  "Surf's Up"

CINEMATOGRAPHY

 "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" - Roger Deakins
  "Atonement" - Seamus McGarvey
  "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - Janusz Kaminski
  "No Country for Old Men" - Roger Deakins
  "There Will Be Blood" - Robert Elswit

ORIGINAL SONG

 "Falling Slowly" from "Once" - Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
  "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
  "Raise It Up" from "August Rush" - Nominees to be determined
  "So Close" from "Enchanted" - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
  "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

COSTUME DESIGN

 "Across the Universe" - Albert Wolsky
  "Atonement" - Jacqueline Durran
  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" - Alexandra Byrne
  "La Vie en Rose" - Marit Allen
  "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" - Colleen Atwood

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

 "No End in Sight" - A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
  "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" - A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins
  "Sicko" - A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
  "Taxi to the Dark Side" - An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
  "War/Dance" - A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

VISUAL EFFECTS

 "The Golden Compass" - Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
  "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" - John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
  "Transformers" - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

 


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Ways to Enter:
1. Fill out and submit the online ballot above. Only one online ballot entry may be submitted per web site visit. Please see rules below for more information.
2. Pick up a print copy of any Thursday or Saturday Keene Sentinel during the contest period (1/31/08 to 2/24/08) and mail to: The Keene Sentinel, 60 West Street, Keene NH 03431 or drop off your entry at The Keene Sentinel's office.
3. Visit Video Headquarters at the West Street Shopping Center in Keene and fill out a paper ballot.
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Contest Rules: Contestants may submit as many entries as they wish, with only one entry per web site visit.  (That means you must exit the site and come back to enter again!).   Photo copies of the ballot will not be accepted.  Submission of an entry constitutes consent to your name and photo appearing in further promotions.  Employees of The Keene Sentinel, Keene Publishing Corp. and their immediate families and household members are not eligible. The Grand Prize winner will be chosen at random from the entries submitted with the highest number of correct responses. All other prizes will be awarded to randomly picked entries of the remaining highest correct responses in descending order. 
Viewer’s choice winners will be selected at random at the end of the contest.  You may win only one prize from the Hollywood Gold Contest.  Prizes will be announced on Thursday, February 28, 2008 here on this web site and in the print edition of The Keene Sentinel.  Winners will be notified by email or phone so be sure to include the correct information on your ballots.  Winners will have 10 business days from receipt of the prize announcement to acknowledge prize notification or prize will be forfeited.  Contest submission deadline is Friday, February 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm.
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