And as long as it can hold its sites against fresh awards-bait Milk and Frost/Nixon (both opening on Friday), The Wrestler should go on to land punches in plenty more box-office bouts.
And to keep things fresh, we have a few new award categories this year too.
"It's already proving extremely popular and we're delighted to receive the very first Fresh Air award".
It said Barbacoa was the first restaurant or bar it was aware of that had done so – and issued it with the inaugural Fresh Air Award.
The best fresh garden award was claimed by the Marble and Granite centre with Antithesis of Sarcophagi, a stark and highly unusual garden within a giant 44-tonne granite cube, created by Martin Cook and Gary Breeze.
The 46-year-old dean, fresh from an awards ceremony at which nearly half the prizes went to female students, said one of the worst things about the scandal was that the medical school, which produced Yemen's first female doctors in the 1990's, had failed women so catastrophically.
Anne Hathaway has already been cast as the future Catwoman, while Christian Bale, fresh off an awards show sweeping performance in 'The Fighter,' is set to reprise his role as Batman for the third time.
Channel 4 series Fresh Meat was awarded the comedy prize.
I pick up good local fruit and veg at the unpretentiously named, well-stocked Wise Buys, and meat and fresh fish at award-winning Andrew Rees butchers.
