"Lincoln" Film Award Nominations & Wins

[Liz Rosenthal]

According to awardsdaily.com, which I've been visiting religiously lately, the Oscars' rules don't allow for write-ins. If this is true (and it had better be, given the source of the info), then I think we can just look at the five nominated directors and theorize from there about who the winner might be.

(02-14-2013 09:10 AM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Here's something else for Spielberg to think about. From Roger Friedman:

"It’s been suggested before, but I am hearing it more and more: Academy voters with paper ballots may be writing in Ben Affleck’s name as Best Director. It’s a crazy scenario already. “Argo” is a favorite for Best Picture. But its director, Ben Affleck, isn’t on the ballot. Neither, of course, is Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino, or Tom Hooper for their Best Picture nominated films. This may have something to do with the electronic voting in the first round this year. Now many who didn’t want to deal with computers have switched back to a paper ballot. And one way to cure the Affleck dilemma is just to write his name in."

http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/02/13/osc...rector-yes