This Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences will bestow golden statuettes upon a few lucky rich people, while we—the great unwashed, the decidedly unfamous—make zingers at their expense and mental notes to watch Virunga on Netflix. Customarily, this celebration/ordeal takes about as long as it took Richard Linklater to shoot Boyhood, but we find the time flies faster when we all get together, via the magic of the Internet, to piggyback off each other’s jokes and express our surprise/disappointment/boredom as an unruly group.
In other words, the A.V. Club staff is gearing up for another livechat, very much in the spirit of our group shit-talking of the Golden Globes, the Emmys, and the Grammys. And we’d love for you to talk some shit with us, through one of two easy methods:
1. Head over here after 8 p.m. eastern/7 p.m. central on Sunday night to follow the official A.V. Club livechat, where you can mix it up with the site’s writers using CoverItLive. Additional bon mots will be culled from Twitter, thanks to….
2. The trusty #avctv hashtag. Affix that to the end of your tweets, and add #oscars for extra visibility, and we may pull your 140-character Bradley Cooper burns into the live feed.
The show kicks off at 8:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. CT, but the livechat will begin a half-hour earlier, meaning you have about 50 hours to talk yourself into sitting through The Theory Of Everything. In the meantime, check out our official predictions for help in winning that office Oscar pool and our roundtable discussion of this year’s nominees.