Here's how you can predict award winners at Gold Derby

STEP ONE: Register for a free account -- it's easy -- HERE. Or use your Facebook sign-in. (If you've already registered, go right to the LOG IN PAGE.)

STEP TWO: Sign in by clicking "Log In" in the blue menu bar in the top right corner of the page. Example:

STEP THREE: Click the blue "Manage Predictions" button in your profile area.

STEP FOUR: Click "Add Predictions" to begin making your award forecasts.

STEP FIVE: You'll be taken to a new page. Use the drop-down menu to decide which awards to predict, then click "Choose"

STEP SIX: Pick a category to predict and click on blue "Click Here" link.

STEP SEVEN: A pop-up box will apear. Grab your choices from the left column, drag them over to the right column and arrange contenders by likelihood of winning. Notice that you can easily move the contenders up and down in the right column.

STEP EIGHT: Wager points. Every category is worth 100 points -- with three exceptions. You get three Super Bets: one for 500 points and two for 200 points. Decide your bet in the drop-down menu located in top left corner of the category pop-up boxes.

STEP NINE: Always remember to click "Save Predictions" button, then move on to decide another category.

STEP 10: Go back to "Manage Predictions" button and check off the predictions you'd like to be seen publicly.

Save your predictions and check back with Gold Derby after the awards show to see if you've reaped the most game points. (If there's a tie, the player with the highest point score and highest percentage of correct predix prevails.)

Gold Derby does more than just present predictions, news, analysis and exclusive celebrity interviews. The site is set up as a social network like Facebook where users can make friends, share views, news and status updates, post photos, videos, predictions, Top 10 Lists and vote for the Gold Derby Awards.

Special attraction: Gold Derby's infamous message boards where Hollywood hotshots dish the dirt. Be careful who you spar with there – superstars often hide behind cybernames or else just lurk and read.  Tina Fey was so outraged by what our posters said about her in 2009 that she denounced them hilariously in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes.

 

Read a history of Gold Derby and its founder Tom O'Neil here.

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BELOW: A brief and simple guide to how Gold Derby works -- including how you can post your award predictions and compete against the experts.

 

BELOW: After Gold Derby helped Cynthia Nixon to choose the right episodes to submit to Emmy judges in 2004, leading to her first Emmy win on her last year on "Sex and the City," she graciously thanked us:

 

BELOW: In 2011, just moments after winning the Emmy for Best Drama Series for a fourth year in a row, "Mad Men" creator Matt Weiner told us what's really important to him: winning the Gold Derby Award a few days earlier. (All site users choose nominees and winners, so join Gold Derby now.)