Oscars(R) Schmoscars: JoBlo.com Allows Regular Moviegoers to Vote for Their Favorites at http://www.goldenschmoes.com

Oscars(R) Schmoscars: JoBlo.com Allows Regular Moviegoers to Vote for Their Favorites at http://www.goldenschmoes.com

MONTREAL, Canada, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The 5th Annual JoBlo.com Movie Awards (aka The Golden Schmoes) nominations have been announced and the online voting will take place from February 23-March 2, 2006. Winners will be broadcast March 3 -- two days before the Oscar winners are chosen. Anyone with access to the Internet can vote now and for free on the official website at http://www.goldenschmoes.com/ .

Unlike most prestigious movie award nominations, the JoBlo.com nominees were picked entirely by movie fans and with over 85,000 votes counted, dwindled down to the top five in each category. This year's top nominated films were Sin City (13 nominations), Batman Begins (12), King Kong (11), Revenge of the Sith (10), Crash (7), Brokeback Mountain (7) and The 40-Year Old Virgin (7).

Site founder and CEO Berge Garabedian, aka JoBlo, said, "Unlike the rest of the year's award presentations, this one comes from actual movie fans and not film critics. Fan favorites are thereby well-represented among critics' faves. This is our fifth year and our most successful one yet. Fans want their voices heard!"

The Golden Schmoes include 29 categories, including the more typical ones like "Favorite Movie" and "Best Actress," but also unique categories like "Best T&A in a Movie," "Best Line of the Year," "Most Memorable Scene of the Year," "Coolest Character in a Movie," "Most Underrated Movie of the Year" and many others."

"I always thought it was funny that movie-going audiences had absolutely no say in the year-end awards, even though they're ultimately the ones buying the movie tickets, paying the actors' salaries and keeping the movie industry thriving year in and year out," said Garabedian. "Movie fans should continue to voice their opinions and challenge the more traditional award shows."

About JoBlo.com:

JoBlo's Movie Emporium ( http://www.joblo.com/ ), founded in 1998, is one of the more popular movie fansites on the Internet with daily movie news updates, set reports, celebrity interviews, movie reviews, trailers, scripts, wallpapers, screensavers, a horror movie sub-site, massive movie community and much more. The site currently receives over 90,000 unique visitors every day and over 23,000,000 page views every month. Berge's first book, "JoBlo.com presents ... The 50 Coolest Movies of All-Time" (ISBN# 0-9714296-6-9), is published by Quiet Storm Publishing with a foreword by writer/director Kevin Smith.

Contact: Berge Garabedian, 514-335-1682

This release was issued through The Xpress Press News Service, merging e-mail and satellite distribution technologies to reach business analysts and media outlets worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.xpresspress.com/ .

Source: JoBlo Media Inc.

CONTACT: Berge Garabedian, JoBlo Media, +1-514-335-1682, or
joblo@joblo.com

Web site: http://www.goldenschmoes.com/
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