...and the winner is

MY OSCAR PICKS

Best Actor- Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler

from the NY Times Magazine- photograph by Paolo Pellegrin

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a young Rourke

Rourke and Andie McDowell- Vanity Fair cover

What you might not know about Mickey Rourke? "Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog. And they've meant the world to me," Rourke's dog, Loki (in photograph above) just died February 19th.

Best Actress- Kate Winslet in The Reader

From NY Times Magazine's Great Performers- stunning photographs by Paolo Pellegrin

Winslet in the movie "Hideous Kinky"

Photographs by Steven Meisel

Winslet in 1996 photographed by Vince Bucci

Kate Winslet at the Golden Globes 2009

What you might not know? Winslet has been rumored to be playing Vivienne Westwood in a biopic about the fashion designer's life. We'll have to wait and see.

Kate wearing a dress designed by Westwood at the 2008 BAFTA's