Y'know, I was ready to put my money on TS3 for Picture, right up to very minute and
second that I saw....Time giving Man of the Year to Mark Zuckerberg.
Hoooo-boy.
I'm not saying there's some kind of cause-and-effect, more that it's just the Early Warning Sign (just as we should have seen Hurt Locker winning last year after all the critics' decline-of-civilization columns last year about "Why didn't you see Hurt Locker instead of Transformers 2"?)
Normally, since Social was centered around a performance, I was ready to put my money on the voters patting the movie off with Jesse Eisenberg and Screenplay...But no, never underestimate the fascination that Really Old People have for showing how "net-literate" they are for talking about how much "Facebook is changing society". (Meaning, it's one of the few websites they know how to visit.)
...Is ANYTHING going to bury the whole Pixar For Picture war once and for all, and get it out of the room?--Are we going to have those stupid "Let's change the rules again, so Pixar can win!" campaigns
every year till kingdom come?
I seriously doubt it's going to be Cars 2 next year, and I may be crossing my fingers too tightly for "Brave". Just seemed like the whole point was "avenging" TS2, and TS3 seemed the most symbolic way of doing it.