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:

The peace of the Hollywood Eden represented by the area in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, that idyllic commune where seekers from around the globe gather to connect themselves to the show business continuum by placing their hands inside concrete indentations left by performers both living and dead, was momentarily shattered yesterday, when an aggressively panhandling faux-Chewbacca crashed his skull into the head of a brave tour guide disturbed by the renegade Wookie's attempt to perpetuate the kind of Polaroid-proffering extortion police are eager to expunge from the city. Reports the LAT: