My 2013-2014 Oscar Predicitons – Part 5: The Results
And so we have another batch of Oscar winners added to the list. I would comment on Ellen as host, but honestly I missed her opening monologue as we got home from dinner late. But from what I saw she seemed to be pretty comfortable, sometimes a little shaky though.
So last year I only had a 54% prediction rate. How well-tuned was my ESP skills this year?
BEST PICTURE:
Winner: 12 Years a Slave
My Pick: 12 Years a Slave
Gravity could have been the dark horse here, but I think that this had too much power going into tonight to lose.
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DIRECTING:
Winner: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
My Pick: Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
I am surprised but pleased. I find it really weird that they did a split two years in a row, and I didn’t predict either after making a split prediction almost every other time I’ve done these predictions.
Gravity really cleaned up tonight.
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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Winner: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyer’s Club
My Pick: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyer’s Club
Yeah, he had this one wrapped up. And he nailed the speech.
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ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Winner: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
My Pick: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Her Oscar has been a long time coming, and this was pretty clearly going to be hers.
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ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Winner: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyer’s Club
My Pick: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyer’s Club
I can’t believe Jared Leto has an Oscar…
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ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Winner: Lupita N’yongo
My Pick: Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Yeah, she certainly had the momentum, and I should have been able to predict this. But I just had a gut feeling Lawrence was winning again.
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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Winner: Her
My Pick: Her
Well, it wasn’t gonna be Woody Allen!
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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Winner: 12 Years a Slave
My Pick: 12 Years a Slave
Man, that guy was intense!
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Winner: The Great Beauty
My Pick: The Hunt
I really thought The Hunt was winning, but that’s mostly because its the only one of these nominations I really heard anything about.
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ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Winner: Frozen
My Pick: Frozen
This was a very popular movie, I’m really not surprised at all.
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PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Winner: The Great Gatsby
My Pick: Gravity
Gatsby? Really? Hmm, weird.
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CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Winner: Gravity
My Pick: Gravity
Lubeski’s first win, and well-deserved. He should have won for Tree of Life 2 years ago as well.
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COSTUME DESIGN:
Winner: The Great Gatsby
My Pick: 12 Years a Slave
I am genuinely surprised.
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FILM EDITING:
Winner: Gravity
My Pick: 12 Years a Slave
I am surprised, but pleased. I love this film.
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DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Winner: 20 Feet from Stardom
My Pick: The Act of Killing
Showing the lack of guts the voters still suffer from. I suppose I should have seen that this idea of trying to be famous would appeal more to them.
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MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING:
Winner: Dallas Buyer’s Club
My Pick: Dallas Buyer’s Club
Another point for me!
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ORIGINAL SCORE:
Winner: Gravity
My Pick: Gravity
I really, really wanted Gravity to win this, and thankfully it did.
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ORIGINAL SONG:
Winner: Let It Go – Frozen
My Pick: Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
In hindsight I should have seen this coming, but I guess it just seemed like too generic of a pop song to me. Oh well. Good acceptance speech though.
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SOUND MIXING:
Winner: Gravity
My Pick: Gravity
Yeah!
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SOUND EDITING:
Winner: Gravity
My Pick: Gravity
Woohoo!
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VISUAL EFFECTS:
Winner: Gravity
My Pick: Gravity
I was gonna riot if this didn’t win.
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DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Winner: The Lady in Number 6
My Pick: Facing Fear
I underestimated the Academy’s bias towards Holocaust films, still going strong after all these years.
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ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
Winner: Mr. Hublot
My Pick: Mr. Hublot
Looks interesting.
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
Winner:Helium
My Pick: Just Before Losing Everything
I heard too late that this was the favourite. Oh well.
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MY SCORE: 14/24 = 58%
There were some easy ones I should have gotten, like best song and supporting actress. Oh well, still did better than last year.
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