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| Name: Ryan Roe Email: prawnrr-rmv@this.com-yahoo.com Position: Movie / Television / Comic Book / Trivia Geek View Ryan's Personal Profile |
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| The last award has been given, the last acceptance speech has been cut off by music, and I’ve eaten my chocolate chip cookie birthday cake. Let’s take a look at how I did with my Oscar predictions, which I made in this post. I’ll reproduce my predictions below. In instances where I was wrong, I’ll put the winner in parenthesis. Actor: Jamie Foxx. Of course he won, and he gave one of the night’s best acceptance speeches. Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman. I changed my mind and my prediction at the last minute from Clive Owen to Freeman, and it turned out to be a good choice. Actress: Hilary Swank. "The only woman ever nominated for playing a boxer," the announcer told us. Okay. Why didn't they tell us Jamie Foxx was the only man ever nominated for playing Ray Charles? Supporting Actress: Natalie Portman (Cate Blanchett). Animated Feature: The Incredibles. Don’t worry, Mom. I get to stay in this country. Art Direction: Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events (The Aviator) Cinematography: The Aviator. Costume: The Aviator Documentary Feature: The Story of the Weeping Camel (Born into Brothels). Doesn’t that winner sound really, really depressing? Documentary Short: Autism is a World (Mighty Times: The Children’s March) Best Eddie Deezen: The Polar Express. I knew it! There were so many people that told me the Academy would go a different direction, but I called this one, baby. Editing: Collateral (The Aviator). Foreign Film: The Sea Inside. At first the presenter said “The Oscar goes to El Mar Al Dentro,” and I was like, “Aw, man. I thought it was gonna be The Sea Inside.” Grossest Scene, Like, Ever, Involving an Eyeball, but it Was Kind of Funny: Kill Bill Vol. 2. It was so nice when Tarantino had the eyeball come up on stage. Makeup: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Score: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Finding Neverland. Song: “Believe” (“Al Otro Lado Del Río”). Another good acceptance speech—instead of thanking some people we don’t know, the guy just sang a few lines of the song. Largest Hand: Hellboy. It was sweet when Hellboy dedicated the award to his Hellgrandma. Animated Short: Ryan. I won!!! Short: Everything in this Country Must (Wasp). Maybe the academy has something against incomplete sentences, because I thought they Sound Editing: The Incredibles Sound Mixing: Spider-Man 2 (Ray). Did this one seem surprising to anyone else? Visual Effects: Spider-Man 2 Adapted Screenplay: Sideways Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Director: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator (Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby). Whatever, man. Picture: Million Dollar Baby. By my count, I guessed fifteen of them correctly, and nine incorrectly, which means I did better than last year. Yee-ha. And by the way, Marlon Brando did get the most applause in the death montage, though Elmer Bernstein and Christopher Reeve seemed to get quite a bit. Other observations: The thing of giving awards in the audience didn’t really turn out so well. It just looked weird. Cameras love Beyonce. Was it just me, or was this year’s show not as funny as that of previous years? Maybe Bruce Vilanch wasn’t around this time. Yeah, that would explain it. Well, that’s about it. Tune in next year, when the ceremony will be held on somebody else’s birthday. Maybe yours! Comments on this post are closed. |
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| <<<(Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby). Whatever, man.>>> Hear hear! |
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| You did better than me. I only guessed 12 right. That's what I get for picking Lorenzo over my good friend Ryan. I think Reagan got a bit of applause, too, but he was first so it took everyone awhile to figure out what was going on. Me? I clapped a lot for Frank Thomas. |
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| I figured a lot of people didn't really know who Frank Thomas was. Ossie Davis also got a big response. |
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| I went to an Oscar party that included a contest to see who could make the most correct predictions. I mostly used your predictions for the categories I knew nothing about (like best Short, Documentary Short, Animated Short, Martin Short) but changed a few others, and I ended up getting 16 right. So I bested you by one! Ha ha! I also won the contest, so maybe I should share the prize with you since I used some of your picks. I was kind of disappointed there weren't any big shockers this year--with the exception of Best Director maybe. What is it the Academy has against Scorsese? Clint Eastwood had a good speech, though. And he's a cool guy. So that's good. |
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