17 out of my 24 (approx. 71%) Oscar predictions were right... too bad I didn't enter any Oscar pools, in the past I usually entered and won the Oscar pools at the building I live in... but I don't think they had one this year. 1. Best Supporting Actor - George Clooney 2. Best Achievement in Visual Effects - King Kong 3. Best Animated Feature - Wallace & Gromit 4. Best Achievement in Costume Design - Memoirs of a Geisha 5. Best Achievement in Makeup - Chronicles of Narnia 6. Best Supporting Actress - Rachel Weisz 7. Best Documentary Feature - Mach of the Penguins 8. Best Original Score - Brokeback Mountain 9. Best Achievement in Sound - KING KONG 10. Best Achievement in Sound Editing - KING KONG 11. Best Foreign Language Film - TSOTSI, South Africa 12. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN is the BEST ACTOR 13. BEST ACTRESS - Reese Witherspoon for WALK THE LINE 14. Best Screenplay, Adapted - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 15. BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Crash 16. BEST DIRECT0R - ANG LEE =)
"...for the greatness of love itself."
17. BEST PICTURE - CRASH
Here's what I got wrong:
1. Best Short Film, Animated - I guessed ONE MAN BAND, the winner was THE MOON AND THE SON 2. Best Documentary, Short Subject - I guessed GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA, and the winner was A NOTE OF TRIUMPH 3. Best Achievement in Art Direction - I guessed KING KONG (which got robbed!), and the winner was MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
4. I didn't bother trying to predict the BEST SHORT FILM, LIVE ACTION (I shouldn't have tried predicting any of the short subjects actually, Roger Ebert didn't, I should have followed his lead), and the winner here was SIX SHOOTER.
5. Best Original Song - I guessed DOLLY PARTON's TRAVELLIN' THRU; and IT'S HARD OUT THERE FOR A PIMP by John Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard won. 6. Best Editing - I predicted CINDERALL MAN, and CRASH won. 7. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - I predicted A NEW WORLD would win, and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA stole it.
And I had no idea that CHRIS PENN died last year. We lost so much talent last year.
Until next year,
- Steve