Appear prescient with smart "guesses" that will dumbfound your friends and family by doing some homework and seeing how the nominees stack up on Watercooler's TV show applications. For instance, the finalists for People's Choice for Best Television Drama are "CSI", "Grey's Anatomy" and "House". Of the three, Watercooler's applications for both "House" and "Grey's Anatomy" are popular, with over a hundred thousand Facebook users combined.

You can even share your predictions of tonight's winners with your friends across the web using Facebook Connect, comment on CBS' The Insider, and you'll have the option to publish that story back to Facebook, where your friends can see it, too.

If you feel like your favorite movie or television show is award-worthy, Facebook helps give you a voice. The British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) uses a Facebook application by Flixster to solicit votes from viewers to help determine award winners. In 2008, the majority of popular voting for BAFTA occurred on Flixster's Facebook application.

Facebook can also put you ahead of the curve with next year's award winners. Beginning next week, Facebook will have previews of many top independent films selected for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Look for more updates on the festival's Facebook Page throughout the next couple weeks.

Whether it's award season or not, people are joining the conversation on Facebook everyday. With tens of thousands of Facebook Pages for your favorite films, TV shows and actors, not to mention a plethora of Facebook applications, you don't have to sit passively through awards season anymore. Facebook allows you to engage and even influence, which makes you a winner, too.


Jon hopes the People's Choice Awards gives his Facebook comment a shout-out tonight, "The people already chose at the box office—'Dark Knight' is the movie of the year!"