By Chris Nguyen
Features Editor

We’re coming in at under two weeks until the big ceremony for the Academy Awards, March 7. Look for my final predictions for the nominations in the upcoming issue of The Sidekick. Until then, here’s some news coming out of Hollywood and the Oscars.

-With no competition from Oscar frontrunner Inglorious Basterds, The Hurt Locker won the Writers’ Guild Award for Original Screenplay while Up in the Air walked its way to an easy win for Adapted Screenplay. The Hurt Locker has won all (Screen Actors Guild) the guild awards, which means the industry really like it.

-BAFTAs prove it loves its own kind by rewarding fellow British actors Carey Mulligan for An Education and Colin Firth in An Single Man, while The Hurt Locker swept the major categories including Director and Picture.

So, we’re left in these last couple of weeks wondering can anyone beat The Hurt Locker? And will there by any dark horses like Firth and Mulligan?