85th Academy Awards Picks + Giveaway!

It's Oscar picking time! 

Each Sheep writer took turns voting below for who we think will win. YOU get the chance to, not only play along but, win an awesome movie themed prize pack! 

1- Large size unisex tee provided by the amazing folks at T-Shirt Printing

Golden Compass DVD

Popcorn and Popcorn bags

Raisinets, Soda Pop Gummies, Gum

Golden Nail Polish

Golden Pedicure Set

Compact mirror

Sheep Swag! 

That's a fun pack! Now, it's your turn. Pick the writer listed below you think got the most right categories. If that writer wins, one winner who voted for that person will win the prize! 

The initial stands for the name of the writer. But here's a breakdown. 

SS = Sharon 

KD = Katie 

BAK = BAK 

BD = Bunni 

GF = Gef 

AR = Adria 

Fill out the Raffledude below and cast your vote! 

Due to the weight of this package, the contest is open to US only. You can still play along and we hope you do! 

Winner will be picked after the Oscar's which airs Feb 24th, 2013. 

Best Picture

"Beasts of the Southern Wild"

"Silver Linings Playbook"

"Zero Dark Thirty"

"Lincoln" BAK

"Les Miserables" SS GF AR

"Life of Pi"

"Amour"

"Django Unchained"-KD BD

"Argo"

Best Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, "Argo"

Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook" -KD

Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"

Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"BAK

Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"-SS BD GF AR

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, "The Master"

Sally Field, "Lincoln"BAK GF

Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"-KD SS BD AR

Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"

Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"

Daniel Day Lewis, "Lincoln"-KD SS BAK BD GF

Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables" AR

Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"

Denzel Washington, "Flight"

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty" BD

Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"-KD SS AR

Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"BAK

Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" GF

Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"

Best Director

Michael Haneke, "Amour"

Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Ang Lee, "Life of Pi" BD

Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"-KD SS GF

David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best Animated Feature

"Brave"-KD SS BD GF AR

"Frankenweenie" 

"Paranorman"

"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" 

"Wreck-It Ralph"BAK

Best Visual Effects

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"-KD SS GF AR

"Life of Pi"BD

"The Avengers"BAK

"Prometheus" 

"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

"Hitchcock"

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"-KD SS BD AR

"Les Miserables"BAK GF

Best Costume Design

"Anna Karenina"-KD

"Les Miserables"SS GF AR

"Lincoln"BAK

"Mirror Mirror"BD

"Snow White and the Huntsman"

Best Documentary Feature

"Searching for Sugar Man" 

"How to Survive a Plague"BAK BD

"The Gatekeepers"SS AR

"5 Broken Cameras"

"The Invisible War"-KD GF

Best Music (Original Score)

"Anna Karenina"-KD

"Argo"

"Life of Pi"SS BD

"Lincoln"BAK GF

"Skyfall" AR

Best Cinematography

"Skyfall"

"Anna Karenina"

"Django Unchained"-KD BD

"Life of Pi" SS GF

"Lincoln"BAK AR

Best Original Screenplay

"Zero Dark Thirty" AR

"Django Unchained"-KD SS BD

"Moonrise Kingdom" GF

"Amour"BAK

"Flight"

Best Sound Editing

"Argo"BAK

"Django Unchained"

"Life of Pi" GF

"Skyfall"-KD SS BD AR

"Zero Dark Thirty"

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Sheep Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, stars Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, and Joel Edgerton. From the director that brought us The Hurt Locker we now have a film that feels like a hard-hitting sequel. While it's a story that should be told, I'm not quiet sure it needed to be told this way.

Plot: 

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) for the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man. 

I love a good war story, as weird and sick as that sounds, I just do. I enjoyed The Hurt Locker and thought Jeremy Renner did a fantastic job as the wacky bomb guy, but I didn't feel the same about this latest middle east edition. The first 45 minutes of the film are tedious and crawl at a snail's pace. I'm not saying I need a bunch of action and naked men to make me happy, but I do need something a bit more gripping then what was offered. I have no clue what the CIA jargon was that took up a good portion of this film. Not to say I'm simple minded or stupid, ok maybe a little, but I've never been to CIA school and I'm not going to know half of the things you're prattling on about. Is this a movie for everyone or for a select crowd? It felt like you needed a degree in war tactics and foreign affairs to figure out who was doing what to whom and why. 

Aside from the CIA ongoings, we have a woman fresh out of school who's in Iraq and taking part in her first torture/interrogation. Water boarding was first on the menu and while it looked like a romping good time you can tell the dude who's on the receiving end isn't singing yippie doda day. As we move on with the Black Site super secret locations we find that Jessica is part of the special unit that's tasked with finding the top terrorists, gathering intel and hunting down the most wanted out there, which includes bin Laden. 

There's a lot of covert, black-ops types of ongoings, buying of information from folks that have relations with the terrorist groups and more torture and punishments. You do get a good picture of just how hard it is to track someone down that's staying off the grid. TV shows make it seem as thought his should be some easy job to perform, but as we learn this is not the case. When someone wants to stay off gone they will, and bin Laden was one of them. 

We all know that the terrorist mastermind was taken out by our military boys. When the film finally gets to the day of the OP everything happens fast and gets intense, with all the build-up leading to this point. Jessica was nominated for her role in this film, but I really don't think she deserves it. Not to say she's a bad actress or anything, but there's not much emotion going on in the film. She has one scene of yelling at her boss but aside from that she's playing a tough bitchy chick who's goal is to find bin Laden and bring him down, which took years of her life and everyone else involved with this mission. 

I get it, it's a story that needed to be told but at the same time I was quiet bored with the delivery. With five Oscar Nominations there must be something more here that I failed to see. If you liked The Hurt Locker and you enjoy watching people talk nonstop about the comings and goings of terrorists then you'll get more out of this film then I did. 

Getting 3 and 1/2 'back in the box' Sheep 

KD