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At this late juncture on the Road to Oscar™, the media has exhaustively polled virtually every awards season opinion-haver about their thoughts on this year's races; determined to find an independent voice that has not yet been heard, this morning local radio station Indie 103.1 turned to the Guy Who Plays Spider-Man in Front of the Chinese Theatre, a free-thinker unafraid to ignore the conventional wisdom in his prognostications. His picks for the major categories:

Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kinkuchi, Babel
 Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
 Best Actress: Penelope Cruz, Volver
 Best Actor: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
 Best Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
 Best Picture: Dreamgirls

Unconventional? Sure. But while we suspect he was doing schtick, we don't recommend that anyone attempt to break the bad news about Dreamgirls to him. As we all know by now, the psyches of Chinese Theatre performers are fragile things, and such a crushing disappointment could easily send him spiralling into the kind of violent episode that claimed the career of Tour-Guide-Brutalizing Chewbacca earlier this month.

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