Translation: I Won! I Won! I Won!

Naked egos and big thoughts: we forecast 1999's Oscar acceptance speeches

In the coming weeks, everyone will be offering predictions about the Academy Awards. Some will even have opinions about which pictures should win, as if good taste and critical justice had anything to do with it. I, for one, refuse to be upset that a cabal of Academy members voted for Titanic last year over Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, which, come to think of it, wasn't even nominated. See what I'm saying?

I prefer to make Oscar-night predictions based on which acceptance speeches I do and do not want to hear. For instance, I wouldn't bet on whether Tom...

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