1st Place Prize Package:

The 1st Place Winner of this year's OscarWorld Open Academy Awards predicting contest will receive this prize package of three prizes celebrating the movies through reading and games!

DEFINING MOMENTS IN MOVIES: This book is a huge examination of film history, containing hundreds and hundreds of descriptions covering all the most important moments in film history. Talk about a guide for finding what movies you should make sure to check out! Subtitled "The Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes and Events that Made Movie Magic", Amazon.com describes it this way: Which moments have defined the silver screen: Bogey’s “Here’s looking at you, Kid,” in Casablanca? Hitchcock’s shocking shower scene in Psycho? Morphing, flying bodies in The Matrix? From the Lumière brothers’ first public film exhibition in 1895 through the arrival of sound, from the golden age of Hollywood to Italian Neo-Realism, the French New Wave, and beyond to contemporary Asian cinema, this guide captures every facet of movie magic. Worldwide in scope, and written by a team of experts, it encompasses all the major directors, brilliant stars, popular genres, and even the most significant technical developments and influential film criticism. Every film buff will treasure this! A massive 800 pages makes this a must have for anyone who loves the movies!

TWO MOVIE GAMES: In addition, this year's 1st Place Winner will be receiving two DVD movie games that will provide hours of entertainment! One is the classic DVD Scene-It! Game, and you'll also get a Sequel Pack containing even more scenes and trivia. You will also receive a unique STAR WARS DVD Trivial Pursuit game, combining all the fun of the regular Trivial Pursuit game but all centered around the Star Wars universe. Contains unique Star Wars character themed pieces and footage from all six movies in the series on two DVDs!

2nd Place Prize Package:

The 2nd Place Winner of this year's OscarWorld Open will receive this prize package, which contains two very rare film items! Back when film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper hosted their Film Festival at Sea on the Disney Cruise Line, they offered these two gifts as part of the experience, and now you'll be able to obtain something you could only get by attending the Festival at Sea yourself! One is a very unique Ebert & Roeper red tote bag, and the other is an Ebert & Roeper visor. The second place winner will also receive a copy of one of the most unique and in depth examinations of the art of film animation, ANIMATION UNLEASHED, by Ellen Besen. Whether you might be an aspiring animator or not, it's a fascinating book examining what makes the art form of animation so successful.

That's what you could win this year, as well as bragging rights and your name in the champions circle for all time on the website ... so definitely JOIN US THIS YEAR!