Oscars(R) Schmoscars: JoBlo.com Allows Regular Moviegoers to Vote for Their Favorites at Goldenschmoes.com.MONTREAL -- The 6th Annual JoBlo.com Movie Awards (aka The Golden Schmoes) nominations have been announced and online voting will take place from February 12-18, 2007. Winners will be published on February 19th and anyone with access to the Internet can vote now and for free, on the official website at www.goldenschmoes.com. Unlike most prestigious movie award nominations, JoBlo.com nominees are picked entirely by movie fans. With over 115,000+ nomination votes counted, The Golden Schmoes committee whittled it down to the top 5 in each category. This year's top nominated nom·i·nate tr.v. nom·i·nat·ed, nom·i·nat·ing, nom·i·nates 1. To propose by name as a candidate, especially for election. 2. To designate or appoint to an office, responsibility, or honor. films are The Departed (12 nominations), Children of Men (10), The Fountain (9), Little Miss Sunshine (9), V for Vendetta vendetta (vĕndĕt`ə) [Ital.,=vengeance], feud between members of two kinship groups to avenge a wrong done to a relative. Although the term originated in Corsica, the custom has also been practiced in other parts of Italy, in other (8), Casino Royale (7) and The Prestige (7). Site founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Berge Garabedian, aka JoBlo, said, "Unlike the rest of the year's award presentations, this one comes from actual movie fans and not film critics. With Hollywood going for the 'easy buck' over the past few years, it's even more important for us real movie fans to speak out now. Fans want their voices heard!" The Golden Schmoes include 29 categories, including the more typical ones like "Favorite Movie" and "Best Actress," but also unique categories like "Best T&A in a Movie," "Best Line of the Year," "Most Memorable Scene of the Year," "Coolest Character in a Movie," "Most Underrated Movie of the Year" and many others. "I always thought it was funny that movie-going audiences had absolutely no say in the year-end awards, even though they're ultimately the ones buying the movie tickets, paying the actors' salaries and keeping the movie industry thriving thrive intr.v. thrived or throve , thrived or thriv·en , thriv·ing, thrives 1. To make steady progress; prosper. 2. year in and year out," Garabedian said. "Movie fans should continue to voice their opinions and challenge the more traditional award shows." JoBlo.com is repped for advertising by Gorilla gorilla, an ape, Gorilla gorilla, native to the lowland and mountain forests of western and central equatorial Africa. It is the largest of the apes, the males reaching a height of 5 to 6 ft (150–190 cm) with a 9-ft (144–cm) arm spread. Nation, the world's largest online ad sales representation company, which places more feature film advertising than anyone else. Gorilla Nation's entertainment properties include over 25 leading film, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and TV sites. Working closely with its web publisher partners, GN's expertise within select vertical markets provides advertising clients the ability to build high impact, integrated, rich media programs across one or more properties to deliver superior audience reach. About JoBlo.com: JoBlo's Movie Emporium (www.JoBlo.com) is one of the more popular movie fansites on the Internet with daily movie news updates, set reports, celebrity interviews, thousands of movie reviews, trailers, scripts, wallpapers, screensavers, quizzes, a horror movie sub-site, a massive movie community and much more. The site receives over 100,000 unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. every day and over 28,500,000 page views every month. Berge's first book "JoBlo.com presentsOThe 50 Coolest Movies of All-Time" (ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m # 0-9714296-6-9) is published by Quiet Storm Publishing with a foreword fore·word n. A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author. foreword Noun an introductory statement to a book Noun 1. by writer/director Kevin Smith. |
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