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I cannot WAIT for Sunday night. My friends are coming over to watch the Academy Awards — for us, it’s even bigger than Super Bowl Sunday! We love a little Oscar in our lives. Who doesn’t!?

This year, I was browsing WikiAnswers to see what the latest Oscar gossip has been. You know…to get me in the right frame of mind. I’ve missed some of the year’s blockbusters and sometimes find myself obsessing over movies that no one has ever heard of. Like Stomp the Yard, for instance. I think I watched it eight times in one weekend. I’m not ashamed.

Have you ever heard of it? Didn’t think so. In my opinion…you’re missing out because it’s definitely worthy of recognition.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate the blockbusters. I saw Atonement on a recent transatlantic flight and found myself wiping my tears on the guy who was asleep in the seat next to me. I think I’ll be rooting for it to win big on Sunday.

What is everyone else buzzing about? I checked the WikiAnswers vault and found these unanswered questions:

• Did Marisa Tomei win an Oscar by mistake?
• How did the film statuette Oscar get its name?
• Who has the most Best Actress Oscar Award wins?
• How many Oscar nominations does Brad Pitt have?

Perhaps you can help out and share what you know. Or maybe you have some of your own questions to ask. Regardless, check out all the Oscars questions on WikiAnswers…and be prepared for Sunday!

Last week, Crystal announced the 1st Annual WAmmy Awards winners here on no.stupid.answers. In this season of constant awards shows, I thought I’d take a step back and explain why we at WikiAnswers wanted to show our appreciation through an online awards ceremony of our very own.

First of all, the WAmmys concept was developed by no other than Brave3, one of our most involved Supervisors. The idea was to share our appreciation so that everyone on and off WikiAnswers can see and understand all the hard work our dedicated group of Supervisors do throughout the year.

This is not your ordinary awards show, either; we’re not bogged down by writers’ strikes or heavy ball gowns. Instead, our winners wear their user names with pride as well as their own award badges.

In addition, winners got to leave their ‘acceptance speeches’ on the awards page - without having to worry about time running out!

It was a fun process to get these awards up and running, and, of course, you can see all the winners here.

Click on the names of the winners to see their bio pages and award ribbons.

Meanwhile, start racking up the answers for next year. Congratulations, all!