The 81st Academy Awards® are history! Use this link to view the results.
Another question from Oscar® U.: Name the two people who have directed themselves to an Oscar® for acting ...
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New feature! "...the Envelope, please!" Our New Year's present to you -- the mother of all Oscar® quizzes! You now have 2 ways to enjoy this material: A test with randomly generated questions, or a series of ten 20-question tests that take you through the ins and outs of Oscar history.
Another new feature! Visit theOscarSite's Screening Room for a selection of trailers, shorts and film clips from Oscar®-nominated films. -- I've scoured the 'Web for links to over 2,700 films. I believe this feature is unique to theOscarSite. (You need to have the Shockwave player installed to enjoy the films. If you can view videos on YouTube, you're ready to go.)
This week's featured Oscar® clip from the Screening Room:
View a 2002 interview with Horton Foote (1916-2009) about his Oscar®-winning screenplay for Tender Mercies (1983). Click on the image to play the selection from YouTube.com.
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Since I develop this site on an iMac, I haven't had the opportunity to see how it performs on systems using Google Chrome. When they release a Mac OS-X versison, I'll let you know how things line up.
2008 Statistics for theOscarSite
Unique Visitors
Visits
Pages Viewed
Hits
Total for the Year
363,687
461,237
1,470,902
6,547,753
Monthly Average
30,307
38,436
122,575
545,646
Daily Average
944
1,260
4,019
17,890
Our visitors and visits were down over this past year - due partly to problems with the server in August - but the number of visits per visitor increased. This indicates that even though fewer people are visiting the site, those who do visit use it more frequently than in previous years.
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