I would like to thank the members of the academy

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I’m sorry to spoil the surprise, and I think you should still watch tonight’s telecast even though you know I’m going to win.

(Astute readers will remember this photo from last February’s California trip. I was there the week before the Oscars, and when my brother and I were doing the Hollywood Boulevard thing there was an Oscar-themed exhibit at the Hollywood and Highland mall, which adjoins the Kodak Theatre. This is an official replica, genuine in size and weight, with which visitors could pose. If you look very carefully, you can see it is tethered by a cord to the display base in the lower left corner.)

Turner Classic Movies is running only Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies this month, as part of its annual “31 Days of Oscar” promotion. But don’t look for “King Kong,” or “His Girl Friday,” or “Duck Soup,” or “My Darling Clementine.” TCM’s “Movie Morlocks” blog has a great post about some of the greatest films of all time — many of them added to the National Film Registry as worthy of preservation — which never received a single Oscar nomination.