{"id":16519,"date":"2011-11-18T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=16519"},"modified":"2015-01-21T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:01:44","slug":"2012-oscar-predictions-you-dont-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=16519","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! 2012 Oscar Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that everybody always says about the Oscars being predictable? Well, maybe we&#8217;re just blowing that up this year. Who could have guessed that producer <a title=\"Brett Ratner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director_smart.asp?search=Brett+Ratner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brett Ratner<\/a> (he of the <a title=\"Rush Hour\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_title_smart.asp?search=Rush+Hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rush Hour<\/a> films and the less-than-revered <a title=\"X-Men: The Last Stand on Blu-ray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=B65067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">third X-Men<\/a> movie) would step down after shooting his mouth off in a most un-P.C. manner? Will <a title=\"Eddie Murphy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Eddie+Murphy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eddie Murphy<\/a> be gone too by the time you read this? (Oh, my. <a title=\"Deadline's headline re: Murphy exit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/11\/oscars-eddie-murphy-exits-as-host\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yes, he already is<\/a>, exiting mere hours after I\u00a0first\u00a0prepared this text)\u00a0Wow.\u00a0You may or may not recall that\u00a0<a title=\"The Perfect Oscar Host(s)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/academy-spotlight\/oscar-hosts\/\" target=\"_blank\">I thought he would do a darn good job<\/a> in what\u00a0may be an interesting year. <a title=\"Billy Crystal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Billy+Crystal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Billy Crystal<\/a> fans may now safely rejoice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s November 2011, so you know what that means: Oscar prognosticating is well underway! Movie Irv is back, well-rested from making his stellar first round of predictions from 2010 (<a title=\"Movie Irv Predicts 2011 Oscar Noms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/movie-buzz\/movie-irv-reviews-2011-oscar-nominations-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\">which you can\u00a0revisit here<\/a> if you want to take a stroll down memory lane) to give you some insights and opinion about what to expect when the nominations are announced:<\/p>\n<div class=\"vid\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6KwYjQvIoAk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6KwYjQvIoAk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that everybody always says about the Oscars being predictable? Well, maybe we&#8217;re just blowing that up this year. Who could have guessed that producer Brett Ratner (he of the Rush Hour films and the less-than-revered third X-Men movie) would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1509],"coauthors":[5441],"class_list":["post-16519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-notes","tag-academy-awards"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2012 Oscars: Academy Award Predictions for 2011<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2012 Academy Award predictions that might just surprise you. 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