Our guide to the 85th Academy Awards (via other guides)

This Sunday, the great powers of Godless Babylon will descend on Los Angeles, where liberal heathen Hollywood will celebrate their orgiastic lives with false idols of accomplishment

This Sunday, the great powers of Godless Babylon will descend on Los Angeles, where liberal heathen Hollywood will celebrate their orgiastic lives with false idols of accomplishment. This is also known as the 85th Academy Awards.

As with recent years, the major categories have so many Oscar nominees that it is almost entirely unlikely that you’ve seen all of them, unless you’ve lived in a movie theater for the past six months. Like, for example, you probably haven’t seen Amour, which should win every single award but probably won’t. We’ve compiled this guide to the best guides about the nominated films, acceptance speeches, predictions, and everything else you need to know about the 2013 Oscars.

Georgia Tech grad student Rebecca Rolfe
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  • Screengrab via Thank the Academy


Rebecca Rolfe is getting a graduate degree from Georgia Tech, which means you probably shouldn’t trust or be interested in her taste in film. You should, on the other hand, be interested in her abilities with interactive infographics for organizing obscure, minute data. For good reason, her breakdown of Academy Award acceptance speeches has gone somewhat viral in recent days. Want to know which producer has been thanked more than any other over the years? The answer is Harvey Weinstein. Want to know whether men or women blather on longer at the podium? The answer, for most years, is men. When your mind is going numb during yet another over-long acceptance speech on Sunday, just think about all the data Rebecca Rolfe is gathering and how much fun it will be to click on it later.