It’s been about a week since the year’s most venerated, vehemently debated and viscerally detested movie listicle was released, and, not surprisingly, the Interweb’s been abuzz with 2009 Academy Award discussions. Personally we find the whole affair sickening and are completely underwhelmed by the slate of films the Academy has decided to fawn over this year.

Before presenting our special Oscars edition of Listicles’ weekly catch-up list of lists though, here are our two helplessly hopeful predictions for February 22: Best Actor to Richard Jenkins for The Visitor and Best Song to M.I.A. for Slumdog Millionaire’s only win. That said, here is our latest installment of Weekly Wednesdays: Oscars Listicles.

• 100 Worst Oscar Snubs (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4): Entertainment Weekly (which, as far as we can tell, is not only going online-only but also list-only) went a little nuts with their Oscar coverage, publishing this epic four-part chronicle of the worst Academy snubs ever. We’re not sure we agree with number 8 (Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz), but we’re totally along for the ride with their number 1, Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo.

• 8 Oscar Longshots We Love: Um, for all their practice EW’s picks aren’t getting any better on average. We would be hard pressed to disagree with anything more than we disagree with their number one longshot: Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist for Best Adapted Screenplay. Yikes!

• 5 Surprises, 5 Sure Things: Okay, we could have made this an all-EW Oscars listicle, but this will be the last from them. Silly Dave Karger, how on Earth could you be surprised that Slumdog Millionaire wasn’t nominated for any acting Oscars? The only actor in the film is Anthony Dod Mantle’s whirling camera.

• 5 Oscar Upsets: As per usual, the daft film historicists at Future of Classic take an informed look back at foregoing Oscar lore to present us with five winners that were upsetters of their time. Our favorite: Mel Brooks’s The Producers beating 2001: A Space Odyssey for Best Original Screenplay in 1968.
  

  "I can't believe Stallone beat me in my own category!"

• 5 New Oscar Category Suggestions: Because the Oscars have not only lost touch with good films but also with popular films (handing out golden statues to mediocre middlebrow movies), the guys at NextRound suggest these terrific new categories be appended to the Academy Awards. Our favorite:

Best Statham-esque Performance

• Jason Statham, Transporter 3
• Jason Statham, The Bank Job
• Jason Statham, Death Race
• Sylvester Stallone, Rambo