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Draft the Oscar race with your friends.

An awards-season fantasy league for three to eight friends. Opinions about movies required; knowing how the voting works is not.

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October

Bid on this season's contenders at a live auction.

On auction night, a video call of about an hour, everyone gets $300 to buy films from the board, the league's list of this season's contenders. Each film goes to one person. From then on, your films score every time they're nominated.

Just sold, lot 18 of 30
The Odyssey
to you
$132
the board said
$110–150
The next night

Bet against a friend's film.

Each of you secretly picks one film someone else bought. That's your fade: the worse it does, the more points you earn. The fades stay sealed until they're all opened at once.

Sam is betting againstThe Odysseyyour film, paid $13279in Sam's bank, drains as it scores
Most weeks

Guess the opening weekend of each new release.

Most weeks a contender opens in theaters, and the league makes a call: guess its opening weekend and its Metacritic score. Closest wins. It posts Saturday and locks Thursday night.

Opening weekend: Marty Supreme

$24.1M. Sam was closest, at $23.0M.

December

Draft the awards races.

Halfway through, you each draft races: a film in one category, like Hamnet for Actress. From January, every win pays whoever holds the race.

Best Director3 of 5 taken
  • Paul Thomas AndersonOne Battle After Another, Sam'sJordan
  • Chloé ZhaoHamnet, Jordan'sSam
  • Ryan CooglerSinnersYours
  • Josh SafdieMarty Supreme, Jordan's
  • Jafar PanahiIt Was Just an Accident, Jordan's
March

Win it on Oscar night.

The Oscars pay the most of any show, and Best Picture, the last award of the night, pays the most of all. Most points at the end wins.

The season so far

What the group gets

  1. Kevin
    Sold, lot 18 of 30: The Odyssey to Kevin for $132
  2. Jordan
    The fades are in: who bet against whom
  3. Sam
    After the New York critics: Jordan and Sam tied at 22
  1. Kevin
    Sold, lot 18 of 30: The Odyssey to Kevin for $132
  2. Jordan
    The fades are in: who bet against whom
  3. Sam
    After the New York critics: Jordan and Sam tied at 22

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For a few awards seasons I listened to The Big Picture's movie auctions and wished I could play. On a flight to the New York Film Festival this year, I started building a way for my friends to play along.

Kevin

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