“The best part about the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday night—y’know, besides Zac Efron, OMG!—is that once it’s over, we’ll never have to think about Slumdog Millionaire again.” — Christopher Rosen, at The New York Observer.

As the last weekday before the big event, today seems to be filled with more Oscar bloggery than all previous awards-season days combined. There are last minute predictions, last minute commentary and, most enjoyable, last minute Oscar nonsense. Are you ready? Are you bored? Are you so behind that you really need to attend tomorrow’s Best Picture nominee marathon at your local AMC theatre?

Whether or not you care about who or what wins on Sunday night, you may enjoy some of the following stories, quotes and video:

• “Fun Fact: Jon Bon Jovi co-starred in an Oscar-winning movie. Fun Fact #2: Fact #1 is a true sentence.” — from Dan Hopper’s list of “20 Movies That You Didn’t Know Won Oscars” at Best Week Ever.
• “The winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1982 was Ghandi [sic], the movie so high in prestige and acclaim it apparently gave Ben Kingsley a lifelong get-out-of-total-career-humiliation free card and enabled him to take roles in such films as Thunderbirds and The Love Guru without being ejected from Hollywood with a cannon. So no, Blade Runner probably didn’t deserve to win, per se, but it sure as hell deserved a nomination, especially when you consider the Academy chose to nominate E.T. The Extra Terrestrial that year.” — from Zac Bertschy’s list of “6 Best Nerd Movies That the Academy Snubbed” at Topless Robot.
• I love Cary Grant as much as anyone (which is surprising since I initially couldn’t stand him), but I just can’t agree that he was ever due an Oscar. Cinematical’s Jeff Anderson, on the other hand, believes the Academy snubbed him just about every year of his career.
• I’m a bit confused by the rules of the list, but check out Danny Jensen’s “Top Five Green Oscar Predictions” at TakePart.
• “The title of ‘Milk,’ about homosexuals’ fight for civil rights, is almost ‘M.L.K.’” — Richard Brody’s been waiting months for the New Yorker to start a movie blog just so he could write that somewhere.
• Vulture writes, “One problem with the plan to keep names of presenters a secret until Oscar night, producers are finding, is that the anonymous scheduled envelope-openers are free to back out without suffering any consequences.” And one problem with this news being everywhere is that there’s never any need to report something that nobody knows was going to happen not happening.
• “No one is suggesting that THE READER must be beloved by everyone. On the contrary, there is always room for criticism. If one does not like the film that is one matter; but to project one’s personal bias on the filmmaker’s objective is wrong and something we could no longer remain silent about.” — from a joint statement from Stephen Daldry, Harvey Weinstein, David Hare and Donna Gigliotti defending against criticism that The Reader is a “Holocaust denial film.” It also serves as a premature defense to the film’s losing Oscars in two days.
• In case you can’t make it to an AMC marathon tomorrow, just check out Chad Vader’s re-enactments of all five Best Picture nominees: