The Cannes Advertising Festival—the ad industry's "biggest annual autoerotic event"—has given a "Grand Prix" award to Diesel's nonsensical, brain-assaulting, poor-excuse-for-porn "Be Stupid" ad campaign. You people are stupid. [Ad Age]

When he was at Harvard, Conan O'Brien and some friends stole a costume from the actor who played Robin. Funny prank! Here's another: O'Brien just submitted his version of The Tonight Show to the Emmys, to compete against Leno.

The National Magazine Awards: a night of moderate glamor! Restrained joy! A modicum of prestige! Let's dive right in!

The Pulitzer winners will be announced at 3 p.m. today. Newsroom staffers will gather expectantly!

The futuristic digital media National Magazine Award winners were announced yesterday. Congrats, DigitEllie recipients/ participants!

Hollywood's big gay Olympics are approaching, and the annoying "film buff" in your office is probably pestering you to enter his Oscar pool, which he's convinced he's going to win. We want you to beat the ittle nerd. Here's how!

The National Magazine Awards are open to the internet riff raff this year. There's a very special short bus-style affair for the digital media this month, at The Sheraton New York, which is really very nice. Let's see the finalists!

The Oscars are on Sunday! Aren't you soooo excited? What's that? It's shaping up to be one of the least-surprising Oscars in recent memory? Well, OK, sure. But we think there are actually a few things to be excited about.

Mark Harris, former Entertainment Weekly editor and partner of Tony Kushner, has a long and engrossing cover-story about crazy Oscar campaigning in this week's New York. Learn why Jeff Bridges will win and Colin Firth won't. Plus: the Mo'Nique backlash.

The early gambling line on the Oscars is tracking the irrestiable storyline of dueling exes James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. Intrade has Avatar as the favorite for Best Picture, followed closely by The Hurt Locker, with no one else mattering.

Best Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Well, not your nominations. But you know what we mean. Anne Hathaway and her good friend Old Dude delivered the shimmering news just minutes ago.

Tomorrow is Gay Christmas Eve, with Oscar nominations announced in the ayem, setting hearts aflutter and sending visions of sugarplum fairy Hugh Jackman dancing through heads. We have a good idea of who will be nominated, but who should be?

Think about the great things in Avatar and of course the script sticks out. [WGA]

Did you write a movie for Weinstein Co., and would you like a Writers Guild of America award for doing so? Too bad: Weinstein's not sending WGA members any screeners. Sorry, Nine, Inglorious Basterds, The Road, and A Single Man.

It's time to trudge back to work—sticky with champagne, coughing up confetti—now that New Year's is over. "Work" for some of us means awards season, this morning marking the beginning of the real full-court press coverage. What's new:

The hacks of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have taken a pause from endless junketeering to release their list of the year's most excellent movies and TV shows. Up in the Air and Avatar continue their inexorable awards march.

Here's the raw data:

Another slew of awards and nominations came in this weekend and the result is that this year's stagnant deathmarch of an Oscar race got a tiny bit shaken up, or at least it got a bit more confusing.

There were two shots left at shaking up this year's horrifically locked in Oscar race: the musical Nine and Avatar. Well, after today's very mixed reviews of Nine, it looks like Oscar's only got one bullet left.

NYT editor Bill Keller endorses the Oscar campaign for Morgan Freeman's Nelson Mandela Invictus performance.