Well, today’s the BIG DAY. Happens once a year. The media will cover it and pundit will argue about it. Whatever happens, it’ll set America’s agenda for the weeks to come…

That’s right — today is the Oscar nominations day.

You can tune into the official Oscar website at 8:30am for the live broadcast and to hear the breaking news with the rest of the world — (including the hopeful nominees).

We’ve done some advance research to satiate our pop culture appetite. We’re taking bets to see which media outlet guessed correctly about the various nominations. Join us!

Linda Holmes from NPR’s pop culture blog Monkey See wonders about the answers to these five questions about the Oscar noms.

The Washington Post’s Celebritology blog has some pretty spot-on estimations on who will make it in the lead and supporting actor and actress categories.

The Week has a great “beginner’s guide” — or refresher guide for those followers who have forgotten — to the way the nomination and voting process works.

If “math” and “numbers” are more your thing, Nate Silver from the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight blog figures up who will get a nod and why.

OK. Now it’s just time to sit and wait to see if “Sex and the City 2″ got some recognition or what.