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Pick Oscar's Best Supporting Actress and be eligible to win a year's film passat Sundance Cinemas

Octavia Spencer at the Golden Globes. She has swept the awards in her categorythus far.
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Bérénice Bejo, right, was charming in The Artist

Just about everyone has an opinion on who should — and will — win the top prizes at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. Now you have a chance to turn your picks into something special — a year's pass to Sundance Cinemas in Bayou Place.

CultureMap has teamed with Sundance for our first Pick the Oscar Winners contest.

Here's how it works:

Click here to go to CultureMap's Facebook page and pick the winner in the Best Supporting Actress category, which is open for voting through Tuesday. Everyone who picks the winner in this category will be entered in a drawing, where the randomly selected Grand Prize champ will receive a year-long pass to Sundance Cinemas, along with 10 runners-up, who will each receive a pass to a movie at the downtown Houston cinema complex.

Octavia Spencer is such an odds-on favorite in this category for her star-making role in The Help that you can likely move on to the Grand Prize drawing by selecting her. But Oscar has the potential to surprise in this category, so you never know if Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) or Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) might score an upset. Others in the category include Jessica Chastain (The Help) and Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs).

There will be chances to vote in other major categories as well:

Best Actor — Feb. 8-12

Best Actress — Feb. 13-16

Best Director — Feb. 17-21

Best Picture — Feb. 22-26

Contest winners will be announced Feb. 27, the day after the Oscar telecast on ABC/Channel 13.

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ACL Fest News

Lorde, Charli XCX among headliners for 25th anniversary ACL Fest

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Charlie XCX's pop domination continues at the top of the ACL Fest lineup.

Austin City Limits Music Festival, one of Texas' biggest events, is having a banner year for its 25th Anniversary. Five months before the festival — held October 2-4 and October 9-11 — music lovers now know who to expect on the lineup.

The highly anticipated headliners include:

Charli xcx
RÜFÜS DU SOL
Twenty One Pilots
Lorde
Skrillex (Weekend One only)
Kings of Leon (Weekend Two only)
The xx

Of course, there are plenty of other acts worth seeing who aren't headliners. Some standouts chosen by the festival include:

Turnstile
Labrinth
Lola Young
The Chainsmokers
Geese
Young Miko
Bleachers
SOFI TUKKER
Parcels
The War On Drugs
Leon Thomas
Brandon Flowers (Weekend One)

While there are certainly less expensive and crowded places to see Texas musicians, ACL Fest is a rite of passage — and for bigger or traveling artists, sometimes a homecoming. Here's who's representing the Lone Star State this year:

Bo Staloch (W1)
World Famous Pets (W2)
Calder Allen
Solya (W1)
Asleep At The Wheel (W1)
DJ Cassandra (W1)
Cure For Paranoia (W1)
NIGHT TRAVELER (W1)
Grocery Bag (W1)
Coleman Jennings (W1)
lluvii (W2)
Montclair (W2)
Almost Heaven (W2)
Left Lucid (W1)
The 4411 (W1)
The Moriah Sisters (W1)
Huston Tillotson University Jazz Collective (W2)

In our opinion, a few acts got short shrift in the announcement. Here are the names we're excited to see while digging deeper:

Lykke Li
Jesse Welles
Saint Motel
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Natasha Bedingfield (W2)
Rebecca Black (W1)

Three-day tickets for both weekends go on sale today, May 5, at noon at ACLFestival.com.

ACL Fest 2026 lineup The full ACL Fest lineup for 2026.Graphic courtesy of Austin City Limits Music Festival

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