Oscar night parties: What's on your menu?

Whether you watch it alone or you watch it with friends, the Oscars are always more fun with food. 

Oscar parties are an opportunity for amateur and professional chefs alike to show off their culinary creativity and party planning prowess with themed dishes, fancy table arrangements and carefully-timed courses often derived from the nominees for best picture.

Last year, Avatar was a popular theme, and many film buffs spent the night eating blue food. Epicurious.com suggested peppercorn-crusted Muscovy duck with blueberries, potato and mushroom gratin with blue cheese and a cool blue martini to wash it all down for their Avatar-inspired menu.

This year, there are a number of different themes to chose from for Sunday night's televised award show: Hearty cowboy fare for True Grit, a family style feast for The Kids are Alright or a finger food menu for Toy Story 3, to name a few.

For those without the time, know-how or desire to cook a Hollywood-themed feast, fear not. Takeout is also popular option, and could represent a student-themed menu for The Social Network.

We are curious: What will you be eating while you watch the Oscars? Take our survey and let us know what kind of themed food you'll be whipping up in your kitchen this year in the comments section below. (This is not a scientific survey. It is based on readers' responses).

We want to hear about your Oscar night party and we want to see your Oscar night recipes.  Want to get involved? You can send your recipes to yournews@cbc.ca and you can upload your photos here.

If you don't have a party of your own planned for the Oscars, we'd love it if you were a part of ours. Starting at 6 p.m. ET, we'll be hosting a live Oscars chat online and we'll be discussing red carpet fashions, nominees, movie trivia  and insider scoops from our own CBC reporters in Los Angeles for the ceremony.