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Congrats Sonic.
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Thanks for adding it all up, Sonic. And congrats.
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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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Post by Sabin »

I already kinda did. I went 22/24, I believe. That's A) a personal best, and B) predicated upon two terrible choices on my part consisting of betting against Cruz and Slumdog Millionaire.
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I don't mean to be pushy, but this was probably my best contest showing ever and I'm very curious to see it tabulated. I don't have time to do it myself.
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Everything okay, barrybrooks?
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Post by Uri »

Big Magilla wrote: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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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.
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Sabin wrote:WOW! This might be a personal best for me. I only missed Penelope Cruz and Slumdog for Sound Mixing.
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.
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WOW! This might be a personal best for me. I only missed Penelope Cruz and Slumdog for Sound Mixing.
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Post by Franz Ferdinand »

Thanks in advance for running this contest barry! I already know I've lost, but good luck to all who ran.
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I'll have the results for you guys sometime tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.
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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
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Post by flipp525 »

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
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Changing to Davis...R/U Adams.
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