Oscar Night Foods

I'm trying to come up with an Oscar Night party menu. I'm looking for suggestions from this year's nominated movies.

Ideas So far:
Pinot Noir (Sideways)
Lemon Meringue Pie (Million Dollar Baby)
Steak and 12 Peas (Aviator)

I can't remember the name of the booze prominent in many scenes of Ray, or what was served on the picnics in Finding Neverland.

I won't stoop to the Shrek-sized M-and-Ms.

Be sure to put a thumbprint on each glass, too.

Someone actually called and asked me for ideas yesterday, and I said hell if I know. The best tie-ins I ever came up with were Newman's salsa (the year he finally won) and Trois Couleurs: Tortilla Chips.

JoelF wrote:I can't remember the name of the booze prominent in many scenes of Ray.

I am fairly certain I saw Jack Daniel's on the counter at the first juke joint Ray worked at, which for me was the best part of this otherwise dismal flick (but perhaps that's for another thread). Ray also made some pretty nice looking fried chicken...and I believe there was mention of a blackberry cobbler.

Hammond

Whatever you decide to serve, dust the rims of your serving plates with cornmeal or brown sugar to suggest "frass.*"

For those that haven't seen Sideways, one of the film's many "inside" jokes is the fact that the fictional "Frass Winery" depicted therein is a joke on the Fess Parker Winery name. In fact, the Fess Parker Winery iteself stands in for the "Frass Winery" in the film.

Erik M.


* "What is "frass," you might ask? It's Bug shit.

David Hammond wrote:

JoelF wrote:I can't remember the name of the booze prominent in many scenes of Ray.

I am fairly certain I saw Jack Daniel's on the counter at the first juke joint Ray worked at,

What I'm remembering is several scenes that featured an opaque brown bottle, wider in the middle than at the top or bottom (sort of like an oversized martini shaker), with a name like "Bool" or "Boon" or something.
His wife raged at him about it late in the film.