My Trophy has a First Name, It's O-S-C-A-R
My Trophy has a First Name, It's O-S-C-A-R: These five goos are some of the intriguing real people behind this year's crop of Oscar-nominated films, coinciding with Funeratic's annual Predict the Oscars contest.
Margaret Thatcher
date: February 6, 2012
category: Government
clue: Meryl Streep demonstrated an iron will as this British prime minister.
explanation: Streep was nominated for an Oscar in 2012 for playing Thatcher in The Iron Lady. more…
solved by: Steve West, Russ Wilhelm, Denise Sawicki, Steve Dunn, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Chris Lemler, LaVonne Lemler, Aaron Shurtleff, Ryan Dunn, and Erik Bates
Billy Beane
date: February 7, 2012
category: Sports
clue: Moneyball was about the triumph of bean-counters in athletics, like this man.
explanation: Beane was the manager of the Oakland Athletics who used economic and statistical models to dramatically improve his team's performance. This inspired the film Moneyball which was nominated for several Oscars in 2012, including Best Picture. more…
solved by: Steve West, Russ Wilhelm, Denise Sawicki, Steve Dunn, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Chris Lemler, LaVonne Lemler, Aaron Shurtleff, Ryan Dunn, and Erik Bates
Zelda Fitzgerald
date: February 8, 2012
category: Literature
clue: Along with her husband, a fellow novelist, this flapper and feminist icon was among the historical figures portrayed in Midnight in Paris.
solved by: Steve West, Russ Wilhelm, Denise Sawicki, Steve Dunn, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Chris Lemler, LaVonne Lemler, Aaron Shurtleff, Ryan Dunn, and Erik Bates
Edward de Vere
date: February 9, 2012
category: Mysteries
clue: Hacker collectives can accomplish a lot these days, but they probably can't confirm whether this British earl actually wrote Shakespeare's plays.
explanation: The Oscar-nominated film Anonymous, no relation to the hackers, concerned the popular theory that de Vere wrote some or all of Shakespeare's plays. more…
solved by: Steve West, Russ Wilhelm, Denise Sawicki, Steve Dunn, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Chris Lemler, LaVonne Lemler, Aaron Shurtleff, and Erik Bates
Hergé
date: February 10, 2012
category: Comics
clue: Transforming European art over sixty years must have been quite an adventure.
explanation: Hergé was the author of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of 23 comic books published over sixty years that introduced a new art style to the European tradition. A film based on the books was nominated for an Oscar in 2012. more…
solved by: Steve West, Russ Wilhelm, Steve Dunn, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Matthew Preston, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, Chris Lemler, and Aaron Shurtleff
