1/2 Oscarweb Round-up
• Our own Anne Thompson runs through some Oscar prognostication off-site... [Premiere]• ...and wraps up the holiday season at her blog. [Thompson on Hollywood]
• Jumping ahead to next year's rat race (I know), Jeffrey Wells runs a reaction from behind the scenes to David Fincher's upcoming "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• The Envelope jumps on that bandwagon with a photo gallery preview. [The Envelope]
• Sasha Stone has a preview of tomorrow's USC Scripter nominations announcement. [Awards Daily]
• Tom O'Neil is hearing "multiple reports" of back room dealings with guys in smoking jackets holding snifters of brandy coming close to a deal that will permit the Golden Globes show to go on in the midst of the strike. [Gold Derby]
• David Carr comes back and focuses on the "other" horse race of 2008. [The Carpetbagger]
• The Baltimore Sun's Michael Sragow, perhaps rightly, hypothesizes that hero lampooning no longer interests audiences, weighing the box office receipts of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" against those of "The Great Debaters." [Los Angeles Times]
• Ryan Stewart sits down with the "There Will be Blood" script to find clues of Daniel Plainview's impotence over the holiday break. [Cinematical]
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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