THE 6TH ANNUAL OSCARWORLD OPEN (2007)
THE PRIZES!

The winner of this year's OscarWorld Open Academy Awards predicting contest will receive these three prizes!

Astar PD-3015 Portable DVD Player! The biggest prize of the three is a brand new portable DVD player from Astar. The Astar PD-3015 Portable DVD Player features a Widescreen LCD panel, and is the perfect traveling companion for your personal entertainment. Power is supplied through the AC Adaptor, Car DC adaptor, or the rechargeable battery pack. The included A/V cables allow connection to a TV with Composite inputs, and with the Full Function Remote Control.

Book: The Big Show (High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards)! In addition, the number one finisher of this year's Open will also be receiving one of the most in depth books going behind the scenes at the Academy Awards ceremonies, letting you in on all the gossip and interesting celebrity tidbits as well as all that it takes to put the yearly Academy Awards telecasts together. Subtitled "High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards", Publishers Weekly described the book this way: Entertainment journalist Steve Pond (Premiere Magazine) opens this bluntly informative look at the "negotiations and machinations, the politics, the compromises and the excesses" of the Academy Award process by discussing the legendary tastelessness of the show Allan Carr produced in 1989, a production so savaged by critics that it destroyed his reputation (it began with Snow White and Rob Lowe performing a "Proud Mary" duet, prompting a lawsuit from Disney). Pond covers Oscar's early history, including such injustices as Norma Shearer's 1930 win over Greta Garbo, a victory triggered by MGM's orders that employees vote for studio chief Irving Thalberg's wife ("What do you expect?" Joan Crawford famously commented. "She sleeps with the boss"). He devotes many pages to the disastrous choice of David Letterman as host in 1995, whose excruciating jokes ("Oprah. Uma. Uma. Oprah") and pet tricks set a ludicrous tone; and cites Madonna's profane tirades during a 1991 rehearsal. The book covers Academy campaigns over the past 15 years, and effectively dramatizes how the show changed under the leadership styles of Richard and Lili Zanuck and current producer Gil Cates. Little-known anecdotes about Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, and Halle Berry confirm that Pond knows this backstabbing territory well, and fans of Hollywood gossip will find plenty of colorful new material.

MY NAME IS BOND ... JAMES BOND 2 Disc Custom CD Collection! And finally, this year's winner will take home a prize you'll only find here! It's a brand new custom CD collection created by Jason O'Brien, which compiles all of the original theme songs for all 21 official James Bond movies, including the most recent film Casino Royale starring the new James Bond, Daniel Craig. Presented in chronological order, MY NAME IS BOND ... JAMES BOND presents the original songs performed by the original artists, introduced with small clips of dialogue from each film. It'll be a journey through one of the most successful and enduring film franchises in history, and because it's so current, it's only available as part of this contest. Beginning with a clip of Sean Connery introducing himself as "Bond ... James Bond" from the very first film Dr. No in 1962, the legendary theme music we've all come to know introduces the collection from the original film that started it all. Through all the Sean Connery films, to the Roger Moore era of the 70's and 80's, to Timothy Dalton's brief foray in two films, to the Pierce Brosnan resurrection in the 90's, and to the latest film, it's fascinating to listen to all the original James Bond theme songs and see how each film's song is a representation of the styles of the times they came out of. One collection, containing songs performed by Paul McCartney, the legendary Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Madonna, Garbage, Sheena Easton, Duran Duran, Tom Jones, Carly Simon, and the current "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale, performed by Chris Cornell of Audioslave. There's other James Bond CDs out there containing the original Bond songs, but none like this containing the most current films, and also containing small bits of dialogue from EVERY film before each song!

That's what you could win this year ... so definitely JOIN US THIS YEAR!