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Biggest Surprise Winner

1:  Original Screenplay
0
No votes
2:  Adapted Screenplay
27
90%
3:  Foreign Language Film
0
No votes
4:  Cinematography
0
No votes
5:  Sound Mixing
0
No votes
6:  Sound Editing
1
3%
7:  Other.  Specify.
2
7%
 
Total votes: 30

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Post by Hustler »

I agree. Adapted Screenplay.
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Post by rudeboy »

Yes, adapted screenplay is a no-brainer. None of the others were particularly surprising.
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Post by Sabin »

Gotta go with Precious for Adapted Screenplay, although The Hurt Locker for Sound Effects boggles my mind.
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Post by Eric »

Voted other -- The New Tenants winning live action short. Because it's not just bad, it's annoying and with no apparent redeeming social value that would at least explain its selection.
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Post by rain Bard »

All of these were either my guesses for what would win (Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film) or my runners-up. I'd say Animated Short was my biggest surprise of the night; though in that case my runner-up won too, I placed it in that slot as a formality, thinking the Wallace & Grommit film was a shoo-in.

Neither the live-action or doc short winners were in my top two guesses, but honestly they were no more than guesses and so I was unsurprised to see something I hadn't considered take the prize in both cases.
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Post by Big Magilla »

I expected The Hurt Locker to win both sound categories.

Precious' win for Best Adapted Screenplay over Up in the Air; An Education and In the Loop was the only real surprise of the evening.
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Post by Mister Tee »

Definitely adapted screenplay. I thought listing Precious as runner-up was akin to placing Maggie Gyllenhaal's behind Mo'Nique (as in, might as well write in Bozo the Clown, for all the likelihood).
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Post by Reza »

Adapted Screenplay.
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Post by Greg »

Which category had the biggest surprise win for you. For me it was Sound Editing, which I thought was even more of a lock for Avatar than Sound Mixing to go along with Art Direction and, of course, Visual Effects.
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