Can you pick the best picture of 2021?

Your review could be a “winner” – just send us your review of a 2021 Academy Award Best Picture Nominee and you’re automatically entered to win. One lucky reviewer of the winning film will win a $50 Amazon Gift Card and another reviewer – who writes the review that gets the most page views – will win another $50 gift card.

Contest Rules

1.  Movie reviews must be of a film nominated for the 2021 Academy Award for Best Picture.

2.  All entries must be received no later than noon CDT on Sunday, March 27.

3.  All entries will go through a screening process to make sure they conform to the size requirement (between 500 and 2,500 words in length) and meet the standards set in the PGS terms of conduct.

4.  Any entry deemed to be “spam” or overtly promotional in nature will be rejected.

5.  Reviews that pass the screening process will be posted immediately to the PGS website.

6.  Every review that gets posted to the PGS website will be promoted on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram.

7.  The day after the Best Picture statue is awarded (March 28, 2022), we’ll use an online random number generator to help select a winning review from among ALL of the reviews for the winning movie.

8.  On March 28, 2022, we shall also identify the review that received the most pageviews bewteen the time of its posting to the PGS website and 12:01 am, on 03/28/22 (right after the Academy Award telecast is complete.

9.  The review with the most pageviews by 12:01 am (CDT) on March 28, will also be deemed a prize winner.

10.  The judges’ determinations on entry qualifications and final selection are final and cannot be appealed.

11.  Winners will be notified by 5pm (CDT) on Wednesday, March 30 and have until 4pm (CDT) on Friday, April 1 to claim their prize. Failure to claim the prize by the deadline may result in the judge electing to select and notify another winner. If that happens, the original winner cannot claim the prize.

So, what do we win?

One lucky reviewer of the winning film will win a $50 Amazon Gift Card and another reviewer – who writes the review that gets the most page views – will win another $50 gift card.

Enter here …

In no more than four sentences, please tell us something about yourself (e.g. where are you from, how long have you been an Imagination Connoisseur, what are your interests, etc.) so we can introduce you to the reader. You can use this sample bio as a guide:

Bob Smith, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, is a devout Monty Python fan and expert is cosplaying as a Knight of the Roundtable. He dreams of going to Camelot one day (when he's able), but has heard that it is a silly place.
Select one film from the drop-down menu and write your review in the space provided below ...
Limited to 280 characters (the length of a Tweet)
There is a minimum word count of 500 words and a maximum limit of 2,500 words for your review.
On a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (fantastic), please rate this film.


Thanks for sending us your message. It will be reviewed, qualified and posted to the PGS website within the next 24 hours.

Please Note:
We reserve the right to decide whether or not a letter will be published, shown, or read during a show (either a livestream or pre-recorded program).

All material will be reviewed and possibly edited for clarity and readability on-air and on the website. Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC, (meaning Mike Bawden and Robert Meyer Burnett) will not accept any kind of story pitches, drafts of scripts, or evaluation copies of books, comics, videos, etc. created by users of this site or people they may represent. This policy is intended to protect from possible legal entanglements both Rob Burnett and Mike Bawden as well others associated with ICU, The Post-Geek Singularity, and The Burnettwork as well as the creators of those ideas.

Unsolicited work sent for any purpose other than as a gift or to be openly shared via The Post-Geek Singularity website and online communities, The Burnettwork streaming media platforms, or any other available means with fellow Imagination Connoisseurs will not be read, watched, or reviewed and will be destroyed.

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