Cross-Eyed Opossum to Make Oscar Picks

And the Oscar goes to ... Heidi the cross-eyed opossum?

The googly-eyed marsupial isn't up for an award herself, but Oscar-watchers are going to make a trip to visit her at her home in Germany's Leipzig Zoo, where she will offer up her Academy Awards picks as part of Jimmy Kimmel's pre-ceremony show Feb. 27.

If you can't bring the opossum to the Oscars, you've got to bring the Oscars to her.

"Hollywood and the Academy Awards -- here I come," reads an entry on Heidi's official Facebook page, where she has more than 300,000 fans. "But I stay in Leipzig zoo and the producers come to me. Great deal."

And since there's no better place to see and be seen than the Oscars, Heidi is already on a diet to help give her a figure worthy of the red carpet.

Zoo officials believe the eye condition that helped Heidi's rise to stardom could be the result of excess weight.

She's already lost about a pound and can even grip things with her tail again, but it may be some time before we know if her eyes will ever go back to normal.

When Heidi makes her Oscar picks, she will follow in the tentacles of another great German zoo celebrity: Paul the Psychic Octopus, who correctly predicted the outcomes of eight straight World Cup matches -- including several upsets -- before suddenly retiring last summer.

Paul died shortly afterward, his unique talent never fully explained, and a not-so-psychic successor has already been named.

In the meantime, Heidi isn't even on display yet -- so the only chance the public will have to see her for the time being will be on the upcoming "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show.

Heidi and her equally cross-eyed sister, Naira, are living behind the scenes as the zoo readies the Gondwanaland exhibition that will be their ultimate home. It's expected to open this summer.