Culturess’ Official Oscars Drinking Game for 2017

With the Oscars comes another opportunity to play a game to get through the several hours of coverage ahead of us, and by play a game, we mean drink.

All of awards season has come down to this: the Academy Awards. We expect big moments, lots of tears, and hopefully at least one shocking upset win. It’s the Oscars, after all. It’d be boring if all the expected movies won all the time.

However, not everyone enjoys just watching the ceremonies unfold as normal. This game is for those of us who like to have a little fun with their awards shows. Pick your drink — and we don’t judge if you go the non-alcoholic route — pick how many rules you want to follow, and away we go! (If you are choosing adult beverages, please drink responsibly.)

For the red carpet…

• Drink every time someone is asked what designer they’re wearing.
  • Finish your drink if it’s a man.
• Drink for every person who wears a lot of gold and basically looks like a life-sized Oscar.
• Finish your drink if you see something truly eye-searing, whatever that looks like to you.
• Drink and toast people who absolutely knock it out of the park with their looks.

For Jimmy Kimmel…

• Drink every single time a joke falls flat for you.
• Finish your drink and pour another if he actually manages to make you laugh. We’re not talking about a little snicker here, either. If Jimmy Kimmel makes you really and truly chortle, finish your drink.
• Drink if a joke falls flat in the room with a lot of awkward laughs and few claps.

For the movies…

• Take a look at the Oscar nominees. Pick one or two movies to drink for throughout the night. (La La Land is going to be the hardest of modes, but Arrival and Lion might make some difficult rounds as well.)
• Drink each time your movie wins.
• Finish your drink if your movie loses a category it’s nominated for.

For the winners…

• Drink if the winner looks clearly surprised that they won.
• Drink if they say the usual things about whom they’d like to thank — their family and so on.
• Drink if the music interrupts them.
  • Finish your drink if they keep talking anyway.
  • Toast if they say something about wanting to finish their speech, because he or she is not letting the man get them down, and you have to respect that sort of thing.

And the miscellaneous…

• Pour one (or more) out during the In Memoriam sequence for your favorite actors or actresses listed.
• Drink for any and all technical difficulties.
• Drink if the Oscars run past their allocated scheduled time.

Next: Oscars 2017: Dark Horse Predictions

Keep it here to Culturess for all the latest from the Oscars this year.