2026 Oscars Bingo

For those of you who like to watch the Academy Awards, here's my annual Bingo cards you can use with your friends. There are 40 unique pages. Have fun!

2026 Oscars Bingo

2025 Oscars Bingo!

It's that time of year! The Academy Awards are just around the corner in early March so I've updated my Oscars Bingo sheets for you. There are enough for 40 different sheets. Hope you have fun!

Oscars Bingo 2024!

We are here already! It is time for the 2024 Academy Awards! I've created my annual Bingo sheets for anyone who wants to have a little fun with their friends. 

2024 Oscars Bingo

2023 Oscars Bingo!

There's just over a week until the 95th Academy Awards ceremony. I've got my recipes picked out, I think I know what I'm gonna wear, and I've got my games to play. Click the link below to use the Bingo game sheets I created. There are 40 different cards so print as many as you need. 

2023 Oscars Bingo

2022 Oscars Bingo

 As always, sometimes you may find you have a winner before the first commercial break. Other times you make it halfway through the show. Hope you enjoy this year's annual Academy Awards show!

2022 Oscars Bingo!

2021 Oscars Bingo

 I know I'm a little late this year with the Bingo boards. I was hoping to get more details on musical performances and presenters earlier. Oh well! It's here now and I hope you enjoy it!

2021 Oscars Bingo

2020 Oscars Bingo!

I must say, I'm glad it's this year and not last. Last year Doug had to travel for work and I had to do the party by myself! It's times like that when I'm thankful for friends who show up early to pitch in, stay late to help clean up, or just get it that I was not as on my game as much as last year. We had fun anyway and here's to another great party!

2020 Oscars Bingo

2019 Oscars Bingo

It's almost Oscars time again. I've updated my annual Oscars Bingo sheets (there are 40) with this year's information. If things change or more presenters and performers are confirmed in the coming days, I might tweak the game boards, but they should still be good to go in their current form. Hope you have fun!

2019 Oscars Bingo

Boston Cream Pie Cake

Our wonderful neighbor, Amy, made this to bring to our Oscars party a few months ago. I keep meaning to post the recipe because it was AMAZING. And it's so simple. I hope this is the exact recipe she told me, because it sounds really similar. You have to try it. 

• 1 box yellow cake mix
• eggs, oil, water called for on box
• 2 (3.4 oz) boxes instant vanilla pudding mix
• 4 cups milk
• 1 tub chocolate frosting

Make cake according to directions and bake in a well-greased 9x13 inch pan. In a bowl, add milk to pudding mixture and continue to whisk until most of the lumps are removed. Pour pudding on top of warm cake. Use a spoon to spread it evenly over the surface. 

Place cake in fridge and allow to cool completely, about 2 hours. Spread frosting evenly over the cake. Start in the middle and gently spread to the sides. Place in fridge to fully cool and set up. 

NOTES: The recipe I found online is for a poke cake. I'm 95% sure the one Amy brought was not a poke cake. 

Serves 12

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes, plus chilling

Recipe modified from www.thecountrycook.net

2018 Oscars Bingo

I know I'm a little later than usual (I think) in preparing my annual Bingo cards, but hey, it's tax season and I have to wait for the official Oscars people to put out some info first. That being said, enjoy these 40 unique Bingo cards and hope you have a fun party!

2018 Oscars Bingo

2017 Oscars Bingo

Ok, ok. I know I said I would post about the deliciousness that is the Bacon Ranch Chicken Quesadilla this week, but I need to post this Oscars Bingo that I made before it's too late for people to use. Next week, I promise.



I'm getting ready for my annual Oscars party. Got my prizes lined up for best dressed and raffles, ballots printed, and of course, Bingo! I'm a fan of having games that anyone at a party can enjoy without any prior catalog of knowledge. Bingo, the great equalizer.



There are 20 different sheets to hand out to friends at your party. If you want/need some low-cost prizes to hand out to winners, I just found out that you can purchase RedBox promo codes and have them emailed to you. Print out the RedBox Codes on cute paper and hand them out as prizes to your Bingo winners. I think the smallest pack you can order is a 5-pack of codes for $7.50. Split the pack up however you want after it's emailed to you and share!

2017 Oscars Bingo

2016 Oscars Bingo

It's that time again! This will be my fourth year throwing an Oscars viewing party. Last year, the blog I usually get my Oscars Bingo cards from had stopped posting so I made my own. As soon as I finished, the blogger posted one last time with Oscars Bingo cards! Oh well. I learned a lot that first year in making my own cards. It's a lot of work! Also, there should only be 25 squares on a bingo card....sorry I messed that up last year. Not sure what I was thinking (I can now blame my old age since last year's party was on my 30th birthday).





Anyway, I went ahead and made the cards again for this year and will post them here for anyone who wants to use them at their own party. I may change some stuff as I learn of new presenters and performers, but most of it is easy to guess from previous years. Enjoy!

Downloadable 2016 Oscars Bingo

2015 Oscars Party

This is the third year I have hosted an Oscars viewing party and this time it so happened to fall on my 30th birthday! I figured I'd make the most of it and go all out for both. I've learned things the last 2 years about what works and what doesn't and I've added little details each year as well. I'm not necessarily a huge Oscars fan, but I do love movies. Not usually the ones nominated for Oscars, but still....

You can see from my invitation that I request "Red Carpet Attire." We get pretty much anything with that request. Some people are coming from work in jeans, some people purchase a new dress just for the occasion, and everything in between. No matter what you're wearing, people have a blast. I like the opportunity to dress up, because for most of us, how often do we get to look all fancy like that anymore? So dust off your old prom dress and dive right on in!

My husband stepped up again this year and helped make gold stanchions for our entrance. Every year I look for some cheap version of a red velvet rope and I am let down by the exorbitant cost. So I broke down and bought 4 tissue paper pre-made ropes from Oriental Trading Company (they looked great, but are not really reuseable) and then racked my hubby's brain for a way to make stanchions. I used my old pie tins, Doug filled them with cement (using a bit of leftover pipe for a hole in the middle while it dried so the stanchion would fit), flipped them over and cut a hole in the bottom (now top) of the pie tin big enough for the 1 inch wooden dowel I bought at the craft store. The cement doesn't show and keeps the pie tin weighted in breezy weather. Spray paint it all gold and there you go!

 

Ty & Doug tested
the app before the party.
Naturally, the dog had
to join in the fun.

My best friend,
Lynette and me,
posing for the camera

For the first ever Oscars party I held, I made the backdrop in the photo above. I used an old black sheet I had, Doug made a PVC frame, spray painted it black and I used felt to make a red carpet and letters. Originally I had a red carpet on the floor leading up to it and Doug hooked up flashing lights behind the sheet so it looked like paparazzi were taking your photo. Over the years, we just kept the frame and the backdrop and set that up for people to take pictures.

This year, we found an app for the iPad that was fantastic! It was only $0.99 and it's called PocketBooth. You set the iPad on a table, turn on the reverse camera and go. You can choose how many photos are on a strip, whether you want color, black and white or other themes, guests can immediately email or post the strips on social media afterwards and you can hook it up to an Air printer and print the strips right then and there. 

New friend Jeff & I
having a great time

Doug's brother surprised
us by bringing a
special guest with him:
Doug's grandma! She
had a blast!!!

So we set up the backdrop, borrowed directors chairs from my brother-in-law (how did I not know he had those chairs all these years?!) and laid out some props. Feather boas, mustaches, top hats, gloves....People had a lot of fun. This app will definitely be used at future parties.

I've got plenty of decorations for the living room. I purchased the blow up "Movie Buff" man you see on the right side (great for pictures, and apparently as a boxing opponent according my stepson), and the stick-your-head-through-it picture on the left side the very first year I had the party. Both have held up tremendously well and make for some fun photos. 

My husband, knowing this wasn't the last he would see of parties at our house, bought me a lamination machine a few Christmases ago. I used it to make Hollywood Walk stars into wall art. I used names of actors and directors who will probably be nominated quite a bit in future years so that I can easily reuse the decals for several parties (they are up by the ledge by the ceiling as well as other places in the living room). 

Several years being staff on the Pepperdine Student Programming Board in college got me access to a bunch of great movie posters. We screened movies each Thursday in our auditorium and always had an accompanying poster or two. However, I haven't purchased a movie poster since then so... my choice of posters is a little dated. I recently went to AllPosters.com and will definitely be investing in some new ones before next year's party. 

Food is always important at events. It can make or break the feel of the party. I go out and get typical movie candy (Reese's Pieces, Junior Mints, Red Vines...) and have handy little cups for people to grab a little bit of everything.

To drink there's always soda and one signature cocktail. I stick to the one drink since it really cuts down on costs. If you try to please everyone by having beer and all sorts of mixed drinks, you're going to blow your whole budget.  I made sure to label the cocktail this year since I almost had a pregnant friend drink it last year because I just labeled it "Red Carpet Punch."

 Last year I figured out that feeding people a lot of candy and alcohol for 3 hours just doesn't always cut it. Everyone tends to get a little jumpy after a while. So I borrowed my sister's hot dog warmer and have served hot dogs the last 2 years. This really helps keep people going and gives them something a little more filling than sugar.

















If they want salty instead of sweet, there's always popcorn. What kind of movie party would it be without it?

Anyone who knows my parties knows that I love to give little prizes away. Prizes went to winners of my Oscars Bingo game as well as winners of random raffle ticket drawings. I usually try to see what DVDs are at WalMart and Target for $5 and build a prize bucket around it. This year we had Talladega Nights (toy car and Wonder Bread), Love & Basketball (frisbee and football), Footloose (Miranda Lambert CD and Dancing With the Stars Cardio Workout DVD), The Devil Wears Prada (sparkly clutch and scarf, fashion magazines), and Warm Bodies (Nerf Zombie gun, The Vamps CD). 

We always give prizes to our best dressed guy and girl, voted on by all in attendance. This year the guy, Adam, got a hat and some bacon socks while the girl, Lynette, got some earrings and necklaces. 

Everyone who attends fills out a ballot, guessing the winners of each category. Winners get movie tickets and small bottles of champagne. And let me tell you, the prizes may not be anything special, but people are really competitive. This year we had 2 people get almost all their ballot entries correct! I always have 2 prizes on hand in case of ties, but man, I don't think it's ever been that close.

I'm sure next year will bring more changes. For one, I plan to make my own red carpet for the event since the cheapy one I got from Oriental Trading Company the last three years just doesn't cut it. I'd rather have something I can reuse and not have to worry about people slipping and falling in my front hall each year. 

I also plan to make it a "Thrift Store Red Carpet." That means that whatever you wear should be from some thrift or secondhand store. You can spend no more than $10 on your outfit and make it as awesome as possible. I think the "Best Dressed" winners will get more interesting because of this.

Here's to many more fun-filled years at the Oscars!

2015 Oscar Bingo

Every year for the last three or four years I have hosted an Academy Awards viewing party. People dress up, we guess who the winners will be and we play bingo. I usually get the bingo ballots from a blog called How About Orange. However, I went to it this year and the person has stopped blogging! I figured I should probably make my own bingo cards since this person wouldn't be doing it and I can update them each year as needed. About 12 hours after I finished making the cards, I got an email from the blogger saying they would still be making them this year. Oh well!







Since mine were already done, I figured I'd post a link to them for anyone else who might want to play bingo that night. There are 20 different cards so plenty for a decent sized party. I may update them as it gets closer and I find out more about who presenters are and such, but as they are now, they are totally usable.

I got ideas from the How About Orange version that I've used in the past as well as another I found a couple years ago but can't remember where I found it. In the mean time, enjoy some photos of my friends from last year's party! I'll do a bigger post about the actual party afterwards.


Downloadable 2015 Oscar Bingo