: About Me

Nick Zegarac is a freelance writer from Windsor, Ontario. He holds a Masters in Communications Honors B.A in Creative Lit and from the University of Windsor.

He's been a contributing editor for Black Moss Press, a market researcher for Compu-Quote and a Creative Director at NAFTC Studios and currently has two screenplays under consideration.

He's also a regular contributing writer for various online publications, including Mediascreen.com, Subtletea and Banks of the Little Miami.

Contact him via email at movieman@sympatico.ca

My passion is ...

movies.

I know too much about ...

movies.

My parents always told me ...

you'll get more gravy with kindness than salt. I hate it when they're right!

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an animator for Walt Disney Studios.

My favorite memory ...

is one I won't share in public.

Why I write ...

...because I'm good at it.

My first job ...

was stocking feminine hygiene products at a well known drug mart.

My best moment ...

I'm still waiting for that one!

My inspiration ...

People - because I continue to believe in the goodness of all mankind. Prove me right.

Entertainment > Movie Awards & Nominations 80th Annual Academy Awards: Winners, losers and surprises

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Before getting underway on the mechanics behind this years' 80th annual Oscar telecast, it would behoove the reader to reconsider that the business of handing out Academy Awards is arbitrary. There has never been, nor will there ever be, a year when Hollywood acknowledges that none of the films its managed to foist up to that prestigious list of nominees are, in fact, unworthy of the honor. No, the glittery gold bald guy must go to someone anyoneeven if no suitable candidate is found. This is precisely why lesser films like Rocky (1976) and Crash (2004) (both entertaining, though hardly ri...

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