The Academy Rewards challenge is here

Academy Awards
 
Welcome to the second annual Academy Rewards challenge. Regardless of your feelings about the Oscars (love, loathing, indifference, ignorance), we don’t judge you, just your answers to the vitally important choices below. Get your answers in, along with your best guesses for the real Oscars, for a chance to win prizes from Cinéma du Parc, Seville Films and more. (Complete the survey here.)

Most outrageous omission (shoulda been nominated)
Spring Breakers
Frances Ha
Prisoners
Fruitvale Station
Inside Llewyn Davis

Most outrageous inclusion (WTF is it doing on the list?!)
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
American Hustle
Nebraska

Best comedy
This Is the End
Anchorman 2
The Heat
Coffeetown
The World’s End

Worst movie
CBGB
Gangster Squad
Movie 43
Oz the Great and Powerful
Grown Ups 2

Worst performance
Ashton Kutcher, Jobs
Matthew Good, Stoker
John Travolta, The Killing Season
Everyone involved, Grown Ups 2
Alan Rickman, CBGB

Most pointless remake
Carrie
Evil Dead
Oldboy
Oz the Great and Powerful
The Lone Ranger

Actor in greatest need of a career intervention
Johnny Depp, The Lone Ranger
Adam Sandler, Grown Ups 2
Sean Penn, Gangster Squad
Bruce Willis, A Good Day to Die Hard
Robert De Niro, The Big Wedding, The Family, The Killing Season, Last Vegas

Most played-out directorial schtick
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Zack Snyder, Man of Steel
Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby
Robert Rodriguez, Machete Kills

Hottest actor
Joseph Gordon Levitt, Don Jon
Henry Cavill, Man of Steel
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Great Gatsby
Chris Hemsworth, Thor: The Dark World
Channing Tatum, White House Down

Hottest actress
Scarlett Johansson’s voice, Her
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Adèle Exarchopoulos AND Léa Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Best sex scene
Joaquin Phoenix has phone sex with ScarJo’s voice, Her
Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Colour
James Franco fellates a pistol, Spring Breakers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore, Don Jon
Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best grossout
Irving Zisman sharting, Bad Grandpa
All of Thanatomorphose
A demon comes out of Ken Marino’s ass and kills people he hates, Bad Milo
Paul Dano’s face by the end, Prisoners
Womb fisting by Ryan Gosling, Only God Forgives

Best villain
The Devil, This Is the End
Kevin Brock, Missionary
Pretty much the entire cast, The Wolf of Wall Street
The Kaijus, Pacific Rim
Melissa Leo, Prisoners

(Complete the survey here.)

And now the real Oscars. Send us your best guesses for the winners in the following categories to  info@cultmontreal.com by 8 p.m. EST on March 2, and the three most accurate entries will earn prizes (details below):

Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)

Best Director
Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
David O. Russell (American Hustle)
Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)
Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

1st Prize: 3 double passes to any film at Cinéma du Parc, 1 DVD of 20 Feet From Stardom, a Cult MTL Blu-ray prize pack, 1 Cult MTL t-shirt

2nd Prize: 2 double passes to any film at Cinéma du Parc, a Cult MTL Blu-ray prize pack, 1 Cult MTL t-shirt

3rd Prize: 1 DVD of 20 Feet From Stardom, 1 Cult MTL t-shirt