Oscar Contest Archive

[James]

You're welcome! This is the 9th year AV has done this and the 16th year I've done an Oscar contest on the internet.

[James]

Some quick notes on the entries so far:

- In one major category all 12 people who have entered so far picked the same winner. In another major category 11 of 12 people picked the same winner.

- In three categories 5 different nominees are receiving votes.

- In the Best Animated Feature category 4 nominees are getting votes.

- Best Picture has 9 nominees this year but only 3 have been selected by our voters.

[Ben]

Interesting stats! Would be cool to see these after the Oscars are done

[James]

Friday is your last day to enter! Don't miss out!

[Ben]

Darn it...still gotta fill mine out! Should be able to get to it tomorrow

[James]

I'm going to do awful. I voted the day we started the contest back in the middle of January. So much of the consensus has changed in the past month.

[Dacey]

Finally voted today. Spoiler alert! Anne is going to win for Best Supporting Actress.

Also, on a random not, I learned today that I've been spelling Seth MacFarLANE's name wrong for years now.

[Ben]

Dunded! See you guys Sunday night (or Monday morning my time)!

[Bill1978]

While I've entered unfortunately this year Im unable to watch the show live and hang out in the chat room like I have done the past 2 years. Damn work throwing a spanner into my annual mental health day. Hopefully I don't go to bad, but I expect it will be a terrible result from me this year.

[James]

Here are the AV contest consensus picks in each category: http://animatedviews.com/2013/oscar-night/

Readers are most sure about Best Actor: 97.4% say Daniel Day-Lewis. Tightest race is Production Design with a 1.3% gap between #1 & #2.

58.4% of AV readers say Wreck-It Ralph will take Animation prize, 74% say Paperman for Short, and 83.1% pick Life of Pi for Visual Effects.

[James]

Here's a list of our previous winners (followed by the number they got right out of the 22 categories we count):

2012 - Bobbleheadbuddha (18), Soraly (18)
2011 - rmh (20)
2010 - Jafar (19), reeg2223 (18)
2009 - MileHighCinephile (20), Bobbleheadbuddha (20)
2008 - MrDy83 (16)
2007 - Jim Figley (14)
2006 - dgaspar (18), Mercury52 (18)
2005 - DarrenBest (18)

[Macaluso]

Ugh Brave won over Wreck-it Ralph. Pixar did not deserve to win this time.

[Randall]

Yeah. Pixar definitely won on their name this time. I feel bad for the Disney folks. I thought they had it this time.

[Bill1978]

Ah bugger. Just found some spare time to check the current winners and seeing Brave win has spoiled my day. That is definitely a win for the name and not the actual product. I now know what it must feel like for someone to see The Amazing Race win every time at the Emmys. Oh well I will have to keep my fingers crossed that Frozen is excellent and helps Disney get their first win. Which I suppose it might be nice for that movie to achieve it since it's a musical fairytale - Disney's legacy (so to speak)

But yay to Paperman winning. At least something connected to Ralph got an Oscar LOL

[James]

While I think Ralph deserved it too, not sure this was simply a name thing for Pixar. They also won most of the guild and other awards too.