NYTimes.com Announces Reader Predictions Sweepstakes for Academy Awards-R-; Chance to Win Dream Vacation to London, Hollywood or California's Central Coast Wine Country.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- NYTimes.com announced today the launch of its "Reader Predictions: Award Winners" sweepstakes as part of its coverage of this year's Academy Awards(R). Readers can predict the winners in six categories of the Academy Awards(R) for a chance to win a dream vacation to one of three nominated-film settings: London, England, the setting of "Finding Neverland;" Hollywood, CA, the setting of "The Aviator;" or California's Central Coast wine country, the setting of "Sideways." One winner will be selected from among all participants in a random drawing following the Academy Awards(R) ceremony on February 27. Current results for the "Reader Predictions" sweepstakes are posted on NYTimes.com/Oscars and updated every 15 minutes to provide a current snapshot of which nominees are leading the "Reader Predictions" race. As of this morning, NYTimes.com readers had predicted the following winners: --Best Picture: The Aviator --Best Director: Martin Scorsese Noun 1. Martin Scorsese - United States filmmaker (born in 1942) Scorsese --Actor in a leading role: Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx (born December 13, 1967) is an American actor, singer, and stand-up comic. Foxx is possibly best-known for his performance of musician Ray Charles in Ray, and for his collaborations with director Michael Mann. --Actress in a leading role: Hilary Swank --Actor in a supporting role supporting role n → second rôle m supporting role n → ruolo non protagonista : Morgan Freeman --Actress in a supporting role: Cate Blanchett Catherine Élise Blanchett (born May 14, 1969), better known as Cate Blanchett, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. She has also won various awards, most notably including two SAGs and two BAFTAs, making her one of a few actors who won all "The Oscars section brings movie coverage to life by combining high-quality journalism and criticism with multimedia packages such as our signature audio slideshows," said Leonard Apcar, editor in chief, NYTimes.com. "In keeping with the site's overall strategy, the Movies section, including our Oscars coverage, allows our engaged and knowledgeable users both to share information by rating films and writing their own reviews, and to deepen their relationship with our critics through features like A.O. Scott's Movie Minutes and online Q&A's with Manohla Dargis." Other features and tools include: --Rate and Review, which allows users to both rate movies based on a five-star system, and to write their own reviews for all feature films ever released. Scores for each movie are averaged so that users can see the all-time highest-rated films, as well as the leaders among the films in current release. (http://www.nytimes.com/readersreviews/movies/highlyrated/alltime/ index.html) --The Critics' Ballots, a multimedia feature narrated by The Times's film critics Manohla Dargis, A.O. Scott and Stephen Holden. They discuss their predictions for the Oscars and offer their opinions on films and stars that did not earn Academy Award nominations. --Dedicated Oscars 2005 RSS feed with links to Times articles and features about the Oscars race. (www.nytimes.com/rss) --Movie trailers of all the nominated films, and slideshows of the Best Actor and Best Actress nominees. --Movie Forums where readers can discuss and debate the merits of their Oscar picks. (http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/movi es/oscars/index.html) --"Questions For...," where The Times's film critic Manohla Dargis answers readers questions about the Oscars. (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/01/readersopinions/dargis-question s.html) NYTimes.com makes available thousands of free archived New York Times movie reviews dating back to 1980, as well as free reviews for all of the films in the New York Times's "Guide to Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made." (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html) The movie section's other tools and services include extensive director, cast and production information from AMG's All Movie Guide; improved showtimes listings searchable by title, city or ZIP code and online ticketing from MovieTickets.com; weekend box office results from Nielsen EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. . Traffic and advertising revenues are strong and growing. In January the section had 1.9 million unique visitors and 12.9 million pageviews. Revenues from studio advertising increased 131% year-over-year, and it is one of the fastest-growing sections for NYTimes.com. 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