Who cares? Me, actually. I treat the Oscar day much like many others treat Superbowl day. Sandy makes snacks that we’ll eat throughout the red carpet and the Oscars, no main supper that day, and we (I) just watch TV for about 5 or 6 hours through it all.

This year’s a bit different with the pandemic. I thought maybe I would have seen several more of the nominated movies this time, since we’ve been locked in for a year and we definitely watched more movies and TV shows overall that we have in previous years, but as it turns out, it doesn’t look much different. Again, I find that most of the nominated pictures I haven’t seen, and several are surprises. I’m going to try to watch at least two of the nominated movies today though. See all of the nominees at the bottom of this post. I always print a few copies of this ballot and refer to it a lot throughout the Oscars.

Best Picture: We watched The Father already, and that was really good, it could win easily. We also watched Nomadland, another really good movie. The rest of the 8 Best Picture Nominees we haven’t seen, so I’m planning to knock out The Trial of the Chicago 7 and either Judas, Minari, Promising Young Woman, or Sound of Metal as my second watch, I’m not sure just yet.

As is the case each year, there are many surprises on this list that I wasn’t even aware of, so I’m busy this morning scrounging to dig up what I can from the interwebs to be as informed as possible. I might even be able to squeeze in a few nominated shorts before tomorrow evening, we’ll see.