Awards Show Challenge: Best Director

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First Posted: 01/30/2012 12:22 pm Updated: 02/ 2/2012 4:01 pm

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On Sunday February 26, the biggest stars in Hollywood gather to bestow Oscars on the best movies of the year. With Billy Crystal hosting the festivities once again, movie fans will be watching how many Academy Awards are racked up by "The Help," "Hugo" and more.

And since we won't know who wins the big gold until that 8pm ET start-time on February 26, this is your chance to test your award show expertise.

Every weekday between now and February 24, we'll post new questions about what will happen on Hollywood's big night. (Right there on the right side of your screen) Submit your best guesses and you'll automatically be eligible for a daily prize of two free movie tickets. The grand prize -- a YEAR'S worth of free movie tickets -- will be awarded to a user with the most correct predictions.

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Who will win Best Director?

  • Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"

  • Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"

  • Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life"

  • Alexander Payne, "The Descendants"

  • Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"

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On Sunday February 26, the biggest stars in Hollywood gather to bestow Oscars on the best movies of the year. With Billy Crystal hosting the festivities once again, movie fans will be watching how ma...
On Sunday February 26, the biggest stars in Hollywood gather to bestow Oscars on the best movies of the year. With Billy Crystal hosting the festivities once again, movie fans will be watching how ma...
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gretchenart
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11:40 PM on 02/21/2012
85% of the time the movie that won Best Director from the Director's Guild also wins Best Director at the Oscars. So I think "The Artist" will likely win, but there could be an upset for "Hugo". Don't think the others have much of a chance.
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ae12wrangell
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04:50 PM on 02/15/2012
Best Director - Martin Scorsese
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03:59 PM on 02/03/2012
It should be Stuart Craig, who has done great work on all the Harry Potter films.
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Tabasco
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09:42 AM on 02/03/2012
I don't like all of Woody's movies. But "Midnight in Paris" clicked. The right combination of acting, fun, magic, art, and inexplicable time travel.
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RJrocks1
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04:36 AM on 02/02/2012
I like him.....he is still maturing as a person of faith. I dont know where he will end up. He may just realize that a person's choices are they're own. Like his mothers was, like his is. Lets wait and see.
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Victoria Dodds
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05:09 PM on 02/01/2012
Woody Allen should win an Oscar for best director, but, that scandal about a decade ago, I believe, seemed to have 'black balled' him in Hollywood. It's actually a shame, he really is a one of a kind director and should be rewarded for his devotion to his films, his personal life, at the time, was jaw dropping, but time has passed.
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DrJay1966
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05:42 PM on 02/01/2012
Woody's been blackballed since 1978, when Annie Hall won best picture and he got best director. He didn't want to miss his Dixieland band's weekly gig, so was a no-show at the Oscars. On top of that, in a documentary some years ago, he said that,as far as he's concerned, awards mean nothing. The Academy really doesn't like that kind of thing.
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DMohr
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09:07 PM on 02/01/2012
Tough to say that Woody Allen was "blackballed since 1978", since he was nominated for Best Director Oscars for Interiors, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Crimes and Misdemeanors...
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