Oscar Results / Contest Winner

It was a great Oscar night. I missed eight category picks out of 24 total. The ceremony was interesting and still too long. Many long haired guys got up to the podium and Kirsten Stewart (with foot injury) hobbled onstage without her crutches and looked about as disenchanted as Joaquin Phoenix did. The show needed the normal cavalcade of comedians as well. Paul Rudd and Melissa McCarthy’s bit was too long and flat. The James Bond tribute did not include all the actors who have played him and concentrated on the overall musical theme instead through the 3-hour-and-35-minute show.

Best Picture

Argo (I picked Lincoln)

Best Director

Ang Lee (Life of Pi) (I picked Michael Haneke, Amour)

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Best Actress

Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress

Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)

Best Original Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) (I picked Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Chris Terrio (Argo) (I picked Tony Kushner, Lincoln)

Best Animated Film

Brave

Best Foreign Film

Amour

Best Documentary Feature

Searching for Sugar Man

Best Production Design

Lincoln (I picked Les Miserables)

Best Cinematography

Life of Pi

Best Costume Design

Anna Karenina

Best Editing

Argo

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Les Miserables (I picked The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Best Score

Mychael Danna-Life of Pi (I picked John Williams, Lincoln)

Best Song

Skyfall (Song) (Skyfall)

Best Sound Editing

Zero Dark Thirty / Skyfall (tie)

Best Sound Mixing

Les Miserables

Best Visual Effects

Life of Pi

Best Animated Short

Paperman

Best Documentary Short

Inocente (I picked Open Heart)

Best Live Action Short

Curfew

One more award to give out this year for the first annual Oscar contest. And the winner is….(drum roll)…Gordon from Minnesota who only missed four! Congratulations! You get your pick of one of the Best Picture nominees on home video (physical copy). Thanks to all the contestants who had better picks than I did this year.