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Forgot about this, didn't we?
I didn't. I tabulated the contest a few days ago, but I didn't want to post the results, for obvious reasons. But barrybrooks8 seems to have vanished so it's either now or never.
Sabin and I tied for first. I was the sole winner for fifteen minutes until I realised I miscounted Sabin's score. (Sabin, I think I got the sound categories switched in my head, because you called it Sound Effects, rather than Sound Editing.) Anyway, this was by far my best showing in any contest in the eight years I've been here, and certainly the first I've ever won. If there were a bonus question, there might really be a sole winner, but this is more ecumenical.
Rain Bard, had you not gone out on a limb with that one category - I think I know which one you mean - you would also have placed first. Instead, you must settle for a runner-up position. That'll teach you, you impetuous madman, you.
I believe everyone got Best Picture and Best Costume. Best Actor and Supporting Actress were the two major categories with the greatest discrepancies. Most people did a solid job on the tech credits... until we got to the sound categories, where many of us fell of the cliff. And sometimes it was the Animated Short/Documentary Short/Short Live Action Film categories that proved to be our undoing.
To the few of you who picked Departures for Foreign Language film, congratulations! And as to those who picked The Dark Knight for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup, what were you thinking?
Remember, the rules were: 8 points for Best Picture; 4 points for the other categories; 1 point for a runner-up choice. 100 is the maximum score one can get. Please recount your score just in case I made an error. The ten highest vote-getters were:
93 points
Sabin
Sonic Youth
90
rain Bard
89
Damien
86
Okri
85
paperboy
83
barrybrooks8
82
FilmFan720
Heksagon
Mister Tee
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And the rest:
81 points
anonymous
Big Magilla
80
The Original BJ
78
Reza
sijmen
77
HarryGoldFarb
OscarGuy
76
AceIsGreat
75
MovieWes
74
Greg
rudeboy
73
Franz Ferdinand
Jim20
72
Hustler
mashari
70
flipp525
Franz Ferdinand
69
Cinemanolis
criddic3
dws1982
68
Snick's Guy
67
mlrg
Precious Doll
63
cam
59
rolotomasi99 (you would have helped yourself had you predicted more than 17 categories)
58
jack
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I didn't. I tabulated the contest a few days ago, but I didn't want to post the results, for obvious reasons. But barrybrooks8 seems to have vanished so it's either now or never.
Sabin and I tied for first. I was the sole winner for fifteen minutes until I realised I miscounted Sabin's score. (Sabin, I think I got the sound categories switched in my head, because you called it Sound Effects, rather than Sound Editing.) Anyway, this was by far my best showing in any contest in the eight years I've been here, and certainly the first I've ever won. If there were a bonus question, there might really be a sole winner, but this is more ecumenical.
Rain Bard, had you not gone out on a limb with that one category - I think I know which one you mean - you would also have placed first. Instead, you must settle for a runner-up position. That'll teach you, you impetuous madman, you.
I believe everyone got Best Picture and Best Costume. Best Actor and Supporting Actress were the two major categories with the greatest discrepancies. Most people did a solid job on the tech credits... until we got to the sound categories, where many of us fell of the cliff. And sometimes it was the Animated Short/Documentary Short/Short Live Action Film categories that proved to be our undoing.
To the few of you who picked Departures for Foreign Language film, congratulations! And as to those who picked The Dark Knight for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup, what were you thinking?
Remember, the rules were: 8 points for Best Picture; 4 points for the other categories; 1 point for a runner-up choice. 100 is the maximum score one can get. Please recount your score just in case I made an error. The ten highest vote-getters were:
93 points
Sabin
Sonic Youth
90
rain Bard
89
Damien
86
Okri
85
paperboy
83
barrybrooks8
82
FilmFan720
Heksagon
Mister Tee
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And the rest:
81 points
anonymous
Big Magilla
80
The Original BJ
78
Reza
sijmen
77
HarryGoldFarb
OscarGuy
76
AceIsGreat
75
MovieWes
74
Greg
rudeboy
73
Franz Ferdinand
Jim20
72
Hustler
mashari
70
flipp525
Franz Ferdinand
69
Cinemanolis
criddic3
dws1982
68
Snick's Guy
67
mlrg
Precious Doll
63
cam
59
rolotomasi99 (you would have helped yourself had you predicted more than 17 categories)
58
jack
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I think I got everything right except for film and the short subjects though I'm not sure Barry will count my best song prediction since I mis-spelled Jai Ho or whatever the hell it's called. No big deal, though, since I went with the front-runners.
In a side note, I watched part of The View this morning. Two points:
Whoppi Goldberg, who is traveling by bus (she won't fly) said she hemmed and hawed all the way there but she stepped out on that stage and looked at the company she was in she was glad she went.
Jane Fonda, on the show to promote her current Broadway play and recent autobiography, as well as remind the audience that she had two Oscars of her own, said everything she voted for won.
In a side note, I watched part of The View this morning. Two points:
Whoppi Goldberg, who is traveling by bus (she won't fly) said she hemmed and hawed all the way there but she stepped out on that stage and looked at the company she was in she was glad she went.
Jane Fonda, on the show to promote her current Broadway play and recent autobiography, as well as remind the audience that she had two Oscars of her own, said everything she voted for won.
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Just scanning the posts last night, I wanted to congratulate you and Damien on running the three blind-luck categories (live, animated and doc shorts). I got two of them and felt like I'd won the lottery.Sabin wrote:WOW! This might be a personal best for me. I only missed Penelope Cruz and Slumdog for Sound Mixing.
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Okay, voting is closed.
Here are some stats for you:
The ones we all agree on:
Best Picture
Supporting Actor
Adapted Screenplay
The ones we think have no chance:
Best Picture: Frost/Nixon
Best Director: Ron Howard
Best Actor: Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt
Best Actress: Angelina Jolie
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Shannon
Original Screenplay: Happy-Go-Lucky
Editing: Frost/Nixon
Cinematography: Changeling
Art Direction: Revolutionary Road
Sound Editing: Wanted
And the most contested race of the night: Sean Penn 20, Mickey Rourke 14
Here are some stats for you:
The ones we all agree on:
Best Picture
Supporting Actor
Adapted Screenplay
The ones we think have no chance:
Best Picture: Frost/Nixon
Best Director: Ron Howard
Best Actor: Richard Jenkins, Brad Pitt
Best Actress: Angelina Jolie
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Shannon
Original Screenplay: Happy-Go-Lucky
Editing: Frost/Nixon
Cinematography: Changeling
Art Direction: Revolutionary Road
Sound Editing: Wanted
And the most contested race of the night: Sean Penn 20, Mickey Rourke 14
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Best Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: Milk
Best Director
Gus Van Sant
r/u: Danny Boyle
Best Actor
Sean Penn, Milk
r/u: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress:
Kate Winslet, The Reader
r/u: Meryl Streep, Doubt
Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
r.u. Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Best Supporting Actress:
Viola Davis, Doubt
r/u: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Adapted Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay:
Milk
r/u: In Bruges
Best Animated Feature:
Wall-E
r/u: Kung Fu Panda
Best Foreign Language Film:
Vals Im Bashir
r/u: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Best Documentary:
Man on Wire
r/u: Encounters at the End of the World
Best Documentary, Short Subject:
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
r/u: The Final Inch
Best Short Film, Animated:
Presto
r/u: This Way Up
Best Short Film, Live Action:
Toyland
r/u: the New Boy
Best Editing:
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: The Dark Knight
Best Cinematography:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Art Direction:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: Changeling
Best Costume Design:
The Duchess
r/u: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Score:
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Sound:
The Dark Knight
r/u: Wall-E
Best Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
r/u: Iron Man
Best Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: The Dark Knight
Best Make-up:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: Milk
Best Director
Gus Van Sant
r/u: Danny Boyle
Best Actor
Sean Penn, Milk
r/u: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress:
Kate Winslet, The Reader
r/u: Meryl Streep, Doubt
Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
r.u. Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Best Supporting Actress:
Viola Davis, Doubt
r/u: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Adapted Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay:
Milk
r/u: In Bruges
Best Animated Feature:
Wall-E
r/u: Kung Fu Panda
Best Foreign Language Film:
Vals Im Bashir
r/u: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Best Documentary:
Man on Wire
r/u: Encounters at the End of the World
Best Documentary, Short Subject:
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306
r/u: The Final Inch
Best Short Film, Animated:
Presto
r/u: This Way Up
Best Short Film, Live Action:
Toyland
r/u: the New Boy
Best Editing:
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: The Dark Knight
Best Cinematography:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Art Direction:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: Changeling
Best Costume Design:
The Duchess
r/u: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Score:
Slumdog Millionaire
r/u: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Sound:
The Dark Knight
r/u: Wall-E
Best Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
r/u: Iron Man
Best Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: The Dark Knight
Best Make-up:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
r/u: The Dark Knight
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