Oscar predictions contest - get your ballot in! (1 Viewer)

[RyanAn]

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Who Should Win: Sean Penn
Who Will Win: Mickey Rourke

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Who Should Win: Heath Ledger
Who Will Win: Heath Ledger

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Who Will Win: Kate Winslet

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Who Should Win: Viola Davis
Who Will Win: Marisa Tomei

Best animated feature film of the year
Who Should Win: WALL-E
Who Will Win: WALL-E

Achievement in art direction
Who Should Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button


Achievement in cinematography
Who Should Win: The Dark Knight
Who Will Win: The Dark Knight

Achievement in costume design
Who Should Win: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Achievement in directing
Who Should Win: David Fincher
Who Will Win: Danny Boyle

Best documentary feature
Who Should Win: Man on Wire (I have not seen any)
Who Will Win: Man on Wire

Best documentary short subject
Who Should Win: The Witness(I have not seen any)
Who Will Win: The Witness


Achievement in film editing
Who Should Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: Dark Knight

Best foreign language film of the year
Who Should Win: Waltz with Bashir (I have not seen any)
Who Will Win: Waltz with Bashir

Achievement in makeup
Who Should Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Who Should Win: Slumdog Millionaire
Who Will Win: Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Who Should Win: Jai Ho
Who Will Win: Jai Ho

Best motion picture of the year
Who Should Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: Slumdog Millionaire

Best animated short film
Who Should Win: Presto
Who Will Win: Presto

Best live action short film
Who Should Win: The Pig
Who Will Win: The Pig

Achievement in sound editing
Who Should Win: The Dark Knight
Who Will Win: The Dark Knight

Achievement in sound mixing
Who Should Win: Dark Knight
Who Will Win: Dark Knight

Achievement in visual effects
Who Should Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Adapted screenplay
Who Should Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Who Will Win: Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Original screenplay
Who Should Win: Milk
Who Will Win: Milk



Wanted was nominated for an Oscar, lol.

14/24

 

[Sam Posten]

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[Patrick Sun]

Only 15 minutes left to get in a ballot!

 

[Patrick Sun]

And the balloting is now closed.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Hopefully I've done all the computations correctly to declare a winner:

Tino!

We had 3 folks tied for the top spot with a score of 20, but Tino got the 2nd tie-breaker (Live Action Shot) correct with "Toyland", so he barely nudges Edwin-S and Patricia H., both of whom also scored 20 correct.

Unless someone objects with the results, I'll be sending Tino a list of blu-ray titles,and he'll be choosing 3 BDs from the list for being the winner of the HTF 2009 Oscars Pick'em challenge. Thanks to all who submited a ballot for this challenge.

Here are the scores from the participants:

20 Edwin-S
20 Tino (Wins on the 2nd tie-breaker)
20 Patricia H

19 Kirk Tsai
19 LynxFX
19 WlknDisaster
19 Robert H

18 Ray H

17 Michael Elliott

16 Elizabeth S

15 Patrick

14 RyanAn

13 TravisR
13 Zach F

12 Neil Middlemiss
12 Eric Peterson

11 Jose Martinez
11 Jason Kirkpatri
11 Joseph Bolus

10 MaritimeGirl

9 Richard JL
9 troy evans

8 Simon W
8 ErichH


7 Sam Posten

 

[Tino]

Woo Hoo

That was close. Lucky guesses. Thanks Patrick.!

 

[Patrick Sun]

If no one can challenge the results, I'll be sending the list to Tino on Monday evening. I'm dead tired, so I might have made a computational mistake, so I want to make sure the results are good.

 

[troy evans]

Conrats Tino! You got your acceptance speech ready?

 

[troy evans]

Not from me Pat. Alot of mine were guess work. This was a neat little contest by the way. Thanks man, it was fun.

 

[LynxFX]

Aww so close. Good job you 3!

 

[Edwin-S]

Nope. I'm good. Watched the show at my sister's place and, in my case, I concur with the 20/24 total. Congrats to Tino. I should have realized that a film about a little girl getting her smile (to be simplistic) might trump even a recollection of events surrounding MLK.

I was a bit surprised that Slumdog Millionaire took sound mixing. I really thought that TDK would grab that one. I was originally thinking of going with Toyland in the live action short category but I decided they would go with something lighter.

I'm happy with my results, considering that quite a few them were calculated guesses.

 

[Jose Martinez]

Well, I'm glad I didn't bet my whole life savings on that "leaked winners" memo...

 

[Tino]

Good job Edwin and Patricia, my choosing that winning tie breaker was just a hunch based on the academys past performance regarding holocaust themed films.

I think I got 22/24 the year ROTK won, but someone got 23/24. Nice to finally win (sort of)

Thanks guys.