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It's Oscar weekend and to make watching Oscar awards program interesting, what is better way than to pick winners and see how one does in predicting. Last year I had 75% success rate (3 out of 4). So this time I decided to predict 14 winners as follows: Best Picture - Argo  Lincoln has good shot but after seeing both movies, Argo deserves to win Best Director - Steven Spielberg (For Lincoln).  This should have been Ben Affleck but nomination process blew up this time. So it would be one of those years when Best Picture and Best Director could go to two different movies Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis (for Lincoln) - no competition here Best Actress - Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) - this could be only award this movie may win due to controversy surrounding this movie Jennifer Lawrence (for Silver Linings Playbook) could be surprise winner only because of "feel good" factor vs "controversy"  Best Supporting Actor - Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln) Be...

Finally the day which all of Bay Area and for that matter all of America was eagerly waiting is here. The biggest sports day of the year for America (bigger than Olympics) - Superbowl day is here! This year's Superbowl is special for many reasons: First time two brothers are head coaches of opposite teams dubbing Superbowl as HarBowl (as I predicted in my previous blog) First time a team (49ers has won 5 times) has a chance to match record of most Superbowl wins (currently held by Steelers with 6 Superbowl wins) First time a team (49ers) has a chance to have chance of perfect score by winning today's Superbowl - they have 100% record of winning Superbowl. Hence Quest for Six! First time an average cost for 30 second ad would cost close to $5 Million ($3.8 million for TV spot and over $1 million to produce the ad) There are many reasons but for Bayarea fans like us, 49ers playing in Superbowl is happening after 18 years. I remember last time it happened when I was just s...