Oscars anyone?

I am so looking forward to Sunday night when I plan to be glued to my TV as the Oscar drama unfolds. I will be watching the academy awards alone but NYC has a spate of Oscar Parties planned for the occassion-http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/urbaneye/05ubn1.html.
No doubt Avatar will win a truck load of awards but I am most interested in the Best Actress category where Meryl Streep is nominated for her role as Julia Child in Julie and Julia a movie set in NYC .(. If I am not mistaken in the dreary nabe of LIC.:)). I recently saw an interview with Julie Powell on whose book the movie is based and she said she loved the fact that NYC figured as a 'character' in the movie. So now more than ever I want the brilliant Meryl Streep to win that bald, gold man! Are you planning to watch the Oscars as well?