How Did I Do With My Oscar Predictions?
Well, The 82nd Academy Awards has come to a close last night. There were quite a few categories in last night’s show that were pretty predictable, and some that surprised me; especially some that won. I’ve enjoyed watching this award show for many years since I love movies and I don’t care for that “who has the best dress” crap. All I care about is the movies; film has been an interest of mine for many years, so much that I’ve ALWAYS wanted to become a director/producer. I hope that time comes someday. But anywho, Below I’ll list out the categories with my predicted winner, along with the real winner from last night’s show. I’ll highlight the categories in red where I’ve made the right prediction. So, the winners are…
BEST PICTURE
Prediction: Avatar
Winner: The Hurt Locker
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Prediction: George Clooney
Winner: Jeff Bridges
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Prediction: Stanley Tucci
Winner: Christolph Waltz
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Prediction: Sandra Bullock
Winner: Sandra Bullock
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Prediction: Mo’Nique
Winner: Mo’Nique
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Prediction: UP
Winner: UP
ART DIRECTION
Prediction: Avatar
Winner: Avatar
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Prediction: Avatar
Winner: Avatar
COSTUME DESIGN
Prediction: The Young Victoria
Winner: The Young Victoria
DIRECTING
Prediction: N/A (Totally forgot this category! DAMN IT!)
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Prediction: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Winner: The Cove
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Prediction: The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Winner: Music by Prudence
FILM EDITING
Prediction: District 9
Winner: The Hurt Locker
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Prediction: The White Ribbon
Winner: El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes)
MAKEUP
Prediction: The Young Victoria
Winner: Star Trek
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Prediction: Sherlock Holmes
Winner: UP
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Prediction: Nine
Winner: Crazy Heart
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Prediction: Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Winner: Logorama
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Prediction: Kavi
Winner: The New Tenants
SOUND EDITING
Prediction: Avatar
Winner: The Hurt Locker
SOUND MIXING
Prediction: Star Trek
Winner: The Hurt Locker
VISUAL EFFECTS
Prediction: Avatar
Winner: Avatar
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Prediction: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Winner: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Prediction: The Hurt Locker
Winner: The Hurt Locker
So, that’s all of the categories. I can’t believe that I totally forgot about the Best Directing category in my Oscar prediction article!
Anyways, I did somewhat OK… actually horribly POOR in predicting the Oscars. I went 9-24 on getting the right predictions. If this was a test/quiz, I would’ve failed with a 37.5% grading. The main thing that really surprised me and caught me off-guard out of this 82nd Oscars was the film The Hurt Locker.
Sure a lot of people and my co-workers said that the film was really good, but I didn’t expect to see it win 6 Oscars (I only had the film to win 1, which was in the Writing (Original Screenplay) category). You would’ve expected to see Avatar to be the big winner of last night’s show, which many were predicting; however, I’m guessing that a ton of us out there were really caught off-guard with The Hurt Locker.
A lot of times when it comes to the Academy Awards, whoever wins Best Directing usually wins Best Picture, thus is what we’ve witnessed last night.
