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    Ellie Madness: Countdown to the Red Carpet

    By Jesse, 4:16 PM on Tue May 9 2006, 165 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

    20060509gellie.jpgWe're just hours away from tonight's big National Magazine Awards extravaganza, and Ellie Madness is reaching a fever pitch. By last night's deadline, 14 mag wags had entered our high-stakes pool. We've tallied their picks and are now pleased to present Gawker's wisdom-of-crowds predictions for tonight's winners. (Methodology: The wisdom-of-crowds pick for each category is the title that received a plurality of votes from the participating pickers. In categories where two or more titles tied for the lead, no winner is predicted.)

    Ladies and gentlemen, the media-reporter crowd's Ellies picks:

    General Excellence, <100,000: Virginia Quarterly Review
    General Excellence, 100,000 250,000: Harper's
    General Excellence, 250,000 to 500,000: New York
    General Excellence, 500,000 to 1 million: —--
    General Excellence, 1 million to 2 million: The New Yorker
    General Excellence, >2 million: Time

    After the jump, the rest of the picks — which call for Remnick to take home at least five Ellies and Adam Moss four. Plus the full panel's choices.

    Personal Service: Men's Health
    Leisure Interests: Conde Nast Traveler
    Reporting: The New Yorker
    Public Interest: The New Yorker
    Feature Writing: The Atlantic
    Profile Writing: The New Yorker
    Essays: Vanity Fair
    Columns and Commentary: The New Yorker
    Reviews and Criticism: New York
    Magazine Section: New York
    Single-Topic Issue: —--
    Design: New York
    Photography: Time
    Photo Portfolio/Photo Essay: Vanity Fair
    Fiction: McSweeney's
    General Excellence Online: —--

    The contestants: Lisa Granatstein and Stephanie Smith from Mediaweek, Jeff Bercovici and Sara James from WWD, MarwetWatcher Jon Friedman, the Post's Keith Kelly, media man about town Greg Lindsay, Gabe Sherman from the Observer, BusinessWeek's Jon Fine, Ad Age Media Guy Simon Dumenco and media reporter Nat Ives, Mediabistro's Dylan Stableford, Huffington Post media editor Rachel Sklar, and, finally, after deadline and without an invitation, our boss, Lockhart Steele. Here is the spreadsheet of their picks. Who will win the Gawker Ellie? Tune in tomorrow.

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