2/12 Oscarweb Round-up
• Jack Nicholson takes considerable umbrage with the length of the Oscar season. [Variety]• Jeffrey Wells digs the Oscar nominated short "I Met the Walrus." [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• Sasha Stone digs into the Best Actress category, considered sewn up in some quarters, an open field in others. [Awards Daily]
• Yours truly takes another stab at how the race might be shaping up in a few tricky categories. [In Contention]
• Tom O'Neil has a chat with Pete Hammond, who thinks Tilda Swinton may pull off an upset. I'm thinking the exact same thing (see link above). [Gold Derby]
• Roger Ebert -- no shock here -- picks Ellen Page to win Best Actress. [Chicago Sun Times]
• John Horn and Gina Piccalo take an interesting angle on the Oscar ceremony: the need to scramble a show together, now that the strike is kaput. [Los Angeles Times]
• Donna Freydkin sits down with the chipper-as-always Saoirse Ronan. [USA Today]
Red Carpet District is Variety contributor Kristopher Tapley's attempt at making sense of the ever-expanding glut of film awards coverage. He's been on the beat for six years. Email 
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