The 2012 Oscar nominations were announced today with the award ceremony scheduled for February 26. While who will capture the coveted Irving Thalberg Award remains as unpredictable as ever, here are some other things you can pretty much already see coming up the red carpet...
MAD has a history of predicting the future. We call it "MAD E.S.P." Eagle-eyed reader Jimmy Blake wrote in recently, pointing out that MAD cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury in the article "Upcoming Movies Based on Comic Books" way back in 1999. That's a full nine years before Jackson played the role in Iron Man!
If you want to know who will be the fourth actor to play The Hulk after Mark Ruffalo inevitably gets the boot, you've come to the wrong place. It's not that we don't know — we're just not telling.
Writer: Desmond Devlin
Artist: Amanda Conner
