Thus begins my first entry in my dissection of this year’s Oscars. I’ll be going through all the major categories – and possibly some minor ones – to discuss likely winners, deserving winners and who got snubbed. I haven’t been this displeased with Oscar nominations in a very long time, and considering how lukewarm I feel about the crop of 2008 films, that’s an impressive feat. So, working my way down the list at oscars.com, we’re starting with Best Actor, which is actually one of the few categories are pretty okay, but still, there’s always things to say.

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The “Don’t Vote” squad is back, and while Sarah Silverman doesn’t take off her bra in this one, you do get a healthy amount of Borat. My favorite moment was Neil Patrick Harris’s comment that he’s voting because he fell in love and he wants it to matter – won’t lie, I teared a bit there.

VOTE!

The deadline is as early as October 4 (this Saturday). On a personal note, I encourage you to check online or call your local election office to verify that you are, in fact, registered. I almost found that one out the hard way when I became unregistered for no reason before the last election (the primary). Thankfully, Chicago was doing a same day registration early voting thing (Ohio’s doing it this time around, as well). So be sure to double-check your registration before the deadline and cast your ballot on November 4th.

And if I can’t convince you, maybe some of these funny people can:

Pass the word along.