Oscar Contest Archive

[Dacey]

All of whom went on to become great contributors to this forum, and post here to this day.

Sorry. That was more than a little snarky on my part. But still, it would be nice if this year's winner stuck around for the fun!

[Ben]

Well one out of nine years ain't bad: Jafar did stick around and was on staff for a long while!

[James]

Since Jafar was on staff at the time we declared the other guy the winner of the prize. But I think it's fair to give him a share of the title, which is the real prize!

...it would be nice if this year's winner stuck around for the fun!

What'd be nice is for one of our regulars to win it! Let's go you slackers!

[ohmahaaha]

Thanks James - been looking forward to this! Always fun!

[Dacey]

Wow. Realize I need to enter this! Running out of time.

[James]

Wow. I need to fix the chat room! Running out of time!

[Ben]

Just got my ballot in. Suddenly remembered to do it this morning when adding the movie channels to my TV package so I can watch with you guys on Sunday night. Phew, was almost running out of time!

[James]

Today (Friday) is the last day to get your ballot in!

[osupreston]

New member - looking forward to this!

Although I didn't bring myself to predict it, I have my fingers crossed for The Wind Rises!

[droosan]

welcome, osupreston!

[estefan]

I'm so sorry. I was planning on entering the Oscar contest, but I was busy and I never got around to it. I know the contest is closed, but can you please, please, please accept my last-minute predictions? It would mean so much to me.

Best Picture: Gravity
Best Actor: Matthew McCanaughey
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Best Animated Feature: Frozen
Best Original Screenplay: Her
Best Adapted Screenplay: 12 Years a Slave
Best Makeup: Dallas Buyers Club
Best Original Score: Gravity
Best Original Song: Let It Go
Best Sound Mixing: Gravity
Best Sound Editing: Gravity
Best Visual Effects: Gravity
Best Foreign Language Film: The Great Beauty
Best Art Direction: The Great Gatsby
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Best Film Editing: Captain Phillips
Best Documentary Feature: The Act of Killing
Best Documentary Short: The Lady in Number 6
Best Animated Short: Get a Horse!
Best Live-Action Short: The Voorman Problem

[James]

OSCAR CONTEST RESULTS!

(Please note if you followed along live, there was a small scoring change. One of the categories wasn't being calculated in everyone's final score. That has been corrected.)

In 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2012 we had two people tie for the top spot in our contest. This year TEN people tied!

Congratulations to rgross3, brobr6, djp2000, GeorgeMonkey, instlouis, Jafar, leonorab, ripkenkid843, WalkingDisaster, and Joe Kenobi! All of them correctly picked 21 out of the 22 categories we count, which is a new AV contest record!

Jafar and leonorab are winners from previous years. leonorab is the first back to back winner. Special congratulations to rgross3 who along with the 21 correct also got both the categories we don't count right, for an overall 23/24!

Unfortunately we only have one prize. So while all ten get the title, only one gets something more tangible. Luckily we have a set of tiebreaker rules set out in advance:
http://www.animatedviews.com/contest/os ... st-tb.html

Tiebreaker #1 is who got the most "animation" categories right. All ten people correctly picked Frozen to win the Best Animated Feature trophy. All ten people correctly picked Gravity to win Best Visual Effects. Only two people correctly predicted Mr. Hublot would win Best Animated Short: Jafar and djp2000.

Since Jafar is a member of our staff he gets bragging rights but is ineligible for the prize -- meaning djp2000 is our prize winner!

Thanks to everyone who played this year! You can see where you placed in the contest here:
http://animatedviews.com/contest/oscar2014/results.php

[droosan]

Thanks to everyone who played this year! You can see where you placed in the contest here:
http://animatedviews.com/contest/oscar2014/results.php

Yayyy, LAST PLACE..!!


Which is to be expected, actually -- since I always vote for the films and actors that I think should win .. not for whom I think the Academy might think should win.

[Randall]

Next-to-last place for me. I get worse at this every year. It doesn't help that I've seen none of the nominated live action films yet.

Interesting that almost no one got the animated short Oscar right! Maybe we were all pulling for Mickey, eh?

[James]

I got it wrong but didn't pick Get a Horse, does that count for anything?