I will only accept entries posted here in THIS thread. Any entries E-Mailed to me will not count. ONE entry per person. The contest closes at 5 P.M. Pacific Time on Sunday, February 24th.

There are 12 categories below. You have to pick the winner for each category. You also have to list the category with your choice below it for ALL 12 categories. If you do not know how to cut & paste then now would be a good time to learn. If you do not include the category with your answer I won't even count your entry & will just move on to the next entry. If there is a tie then we will go to the tie-breaker question. If there is still a tie then whoever posted first wins.

The winner will get the uncirculated 2005 Mandalay Bay $8 Year of the Rooster chip below.

If someone answers all 12 categories correctly they will get the 2004 Riviera Oscars $10 Hologram token below. This has the date on it of February 29th, 2004. Might be the only token ever released in a Leap Year with the date on it.

It's been called "the Academy statuette," "the golden trophy" and "the statue of merit." The entertainment trade paper, Weekly Variety, even attempted to popularize "the iron man." Thankfully, the term never stuck. Born in 1928, the Academy Award of Merit — which we know as simply "the Oscar" — depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword, standing on a reel of film with five spokes, signifying the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers and Technicians.

Weighing 8.5 pounds and standing 13.5 inches tall, the statuette was designed by MGM's chief art director Cedric Gibbons. Frederic Hope, Gibbons' assistant, created the original Belgian black marble base; artist George Stanley sculpted the design; and the California Bronze Foundry hand cast the first statuette in bronze plated with 24-karat gold.

The Origin of the Oscar Name

A popular but unsubstantiated story has been that the moniker caught on after Academy librarian and eventual executive director Margaret Herrick said that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar. Its first documented mention came after the sixth Awards Presentation in 1934 when Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in reference to Katharine Hepburn's first Best Actress win. The Academy itself didn't use the nickname officially until 1939.

Oscar has changed his look on occasion. In the 1930s through the 50's, juvenile players received miniature replicas of the statuette; ventriloquist Edgar Bergen was presented with a wooden statuette with a movable mouth; and Walt Disney was honored with one full-size and seven miniature statuettes on behalf of his animated feature SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. In support of the World War II effort between 1942 and 1944, Oscars were made of plaster, to be traded in for golden statuettes after the war. Additionally, the base was raised and changed from marble to metal in 1945. And in 1949, Academy Award statuettes began to be numbered, starting with No. 501.

Here are the categories...Good Luck!

BEST PICTURE

"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Lincoln"
"Les Miserables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"Django Unchained"
"Argo"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty"
Naomi Watts for "The Impossible"
Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"
Quvenzhane Wallis for "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Emmanuelle Riva for "Amour"

BEST ACTOR

Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln"
Denzel Washington for "Flight"
Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master"
Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables"
Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables"
Sally Field for "Lincoln"
Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Helen Hunt for "The Sessions"
Amy Adams for "The Master"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master"
Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained"
Alan Arkin for "Argo"
Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook"

BEST DIRECTOR

Ang Lee for "Life of Pi"
Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln"
David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook"
Michael Haneke for "Amour"
Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

"Life of Pi"
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"The Avengers"
"Prometheus"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

"Skyfall"
"Anna Karenina"
"Django Unchained"
"Life of Pi"
"Lincoln"

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

"Anna Karenina"
"Les Miserables"
"Lincoln"
"Mirror Mirror"
"Snow White and the Huntsman"

BEST FILM EDITING

"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Life of Pi"
"Argo"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

BEST MAKEUP

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
"Les Miserables"
"Hitchcock"

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice" (Music and Lyric by J. Ralph)
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted" (Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane)
"Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi" (Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri)
"Suddenly" from "Les Misérables" (Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil)
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall" (Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth)

Tie-breaker question!

What time (Pacific Time) will the Academy Awards end?