Hey there movie fans and award-season junkies, here we are again with
The 3rd AnnualSDMB Academy AwardPrediction Contest* (with real prizes!)*
How to Play: Simply guess the winners of each of the 24 Academy Award categories. You can do so by:
(1) Going to Oscar.com and joining the Doper group in the Prediction Contest there. Our group is Cecil’s Kids and the password is sdmb. You’ll need to register at the website.
(2) If you don’t want to register at the website, go ahead and post your predictions here instead. However, your prediction post in this thread will be FINAL–no edits or revisions allowed (you are free to edit your entry if you register at the Oscar website). For a full slate of nominees, also go to Oscar.com. No posts will be considered after 5:00 PST, Sunday, February 27.
Should there be a tie, the correct number of predictions in the following categories will determine the winner: Screenplay (Original & Adapted), Music (Score & Song), Documentary (Feature & Short).
And, just like last year, I’ll personally provide the prize to the winner (though I’ll also be playing).
Does anyone mind if I post my picks here? (I’ve already entered them at Oscars.com.) That way, if anyone wants to call me an ignorant cretin, they don’t have to go back and forth between websites to back up their argument.
Best Picture: THE AVIATOR
Actor in a Leading Role: Jamie Foxx in RAY
Actor in a Supporting Role: Alan Alda in THE AVIATOR
Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet in ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Actress in a Supporting Role: Laura Linney in KINSEY
Animated Feature Film: THE INCREDIBLES
Art Direction: THE AVIATOR
Cinematography: HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
Costume Design: LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
Directing: THE AVIATOR
Documentary Feature: TWIST OF FAITH
Documentary Short Subject: AUTISM IS A WORLD
Film Editing: THE AVIATOR
Foreign Language Film: AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
Makeup: THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
Music (Score): THE VILLAGE
Music (Song): “Accidentally In Love” from SHREK 2
Short Film - Animated: LORENZO
Short Film - Live Action: 7:35 IN THE MORNING
Sound Mixing: RAY
Sound Editing: THE INCREDIBLES
Visual Effects: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): SIDEWAYS
Writing (Original Screenplay): ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
An explanatory note: I’ve only seen a few of these movies. In some categories (like film editing and sound mixing) I truly am an ignorant cretin, and probably can’t tell the difference between a movie that does it well and one that does it badly. I’ve never even heard of most of the short subjects and documentaries, except “Super Size Me,” which I certainly didn’t think was good enough to win an Oscar so I didn’t vote for it.
Oh, and I’m really sorry that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow didn’t get a nomination for visual effects or costumes. That’s all.
Blissfully ignorant of more than half the films up for Oscar nods, I’ll have at it anyway. My picks are up, sans selections for short subject and documatary, which I’ll have to research a bit before I decide. Cheers.
Any guess what the prize will be this year? Will it be a CD as it was last year? Perhaps the soundtrack to Ray would be nice, or maybe a DVD of one of the nominated films. Just sayin’…
The prize will always be a CD soundtrack–usually of an older film, but still one related (somehow) to that particular year’s ceremony. I haven’t decided yet (and usually keep it a surprise anyway. )
And Capt. L. Murdoch–alas! Stein didn’t have any feature film appearances this year. This naturally explains the omission.
Come one come all! Less than a week remaining! There are still few enough people signed up that your chances of winning a free film music CD are still very very good!
My official predictions. You don’t even have to watch the show once you’ve read these:
Best Picture: “The Aviator”
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, “The Aviator”
Actor: Jamie Foxx, “Ray”
Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman, “Million Dollar Baby”
Actress: Annette Bening, “Being Julia”
Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, “The Aviator”
Feature Animated Film: “The Incredibles”
Short Animated Film: “Birthday Boy”
Short Film, Live Action: “Everything In This Country Must”
Best Foreign Language Film: “The Sea Inside”
Documentary Feature: “The Story of the Weeping Camel”
Documentary, Short Subject: “Autism is a World”
Art Direction: Ferreti/Lo Schiavo, “The Aviator”
Cinematography: Robert Richardson, “The Aviator”
Costume Design: Alexandra Byrne, “Finding Neverland”
Film Editing: Joel Cox, “Million Dollar Baby”
Makeup: O’Reilly/Corso, “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”
Music, Original Score: Thomas Newman, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”
Music, Original Song: Duritz et al., “Accidentally In Love” from “Shrek 2”
Sound Editing: Paul Ottosson, “Spider-Man 2”
Sound Mixing: Flieschman/Hliddal, “The Aviator”
Achievement in Visual Effects: Dykstra et al., “Spider-Man 2”
Best Screenplay (Adapted): Payne/Taylor, “Sideways”
Best Screenplay (Original): Charlie Kaufman, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
The Oscar.com webpage from the OP ain’t letting me in; so here’s my guesses for the winners:
PICTURE: Million Dollar Baby
DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese (The Aviator)
ACTOR: Jamie Foxx (Ray)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)
ACTRESS: Hillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Virginia Madsen (Sideways)
ANIMATED FEATURE: The Incredibles
ART DIRECTION: The Aviator
CINEMATOGRAPHY: House of Flying Daggers
COSTUME DESIGN: The Aviator
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE): Born into Brothels
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT): Autism is a Wor d
EDITING: Million Dollar Baby
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: The Sea Inside
MAKE-UP: Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events
ORIGINAL SCORE: Finding Neverland
ORIGINAL SONG: “Believe” (Polar Express)
ANIMATED SHORT: Birthday Boy
LIVE-ACTION SHORT: The Little Terrorist
SOUND EDITING: Spider Man 2
SOUND: The Aviator
VISUAL EFFECTS: Spider Man 2
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Sideways
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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