Move along, there's nothing to see here.
It was the Oscar Night of no surprises. The biggest "surprise," if you could call it that, was the Inception/Wally Pfister win for Cinematography over Roger Deakins for True Grit. And even that wasn't much of a stunner as Pfister had won the Guild award from cinematographers a few days ago. Otherwise, it was according to expectations.
The Clearinghouse was 17 of 21 in the non-Short subject categories. In the three categories where I personally differed from the Clearinghouse numbers, I was 1 of 3 (The OC got Costume and Supporting Actress right, I missed those. I got Tom Hooper's Directing Oscar right, The OC said it would be David Fincher). So, personally, I was 16 of 21...17 of 24 when you throw in the Short Subject categories.
Overall, both The OC analysis and I improved over last year's 14 of 24 so maybe we're getting better.
End of the night numbers:
The King's Speech-4
Inception-4
The Social Network-3
Alice in Wonderland-2
The Fighter-2
Toy Story 3-2
One each for Black Swan, Inside Job, In a Better World, & The Wolfman.
7 Oscars from Telluride #37 films (TKS-4, Black Swan-1, Inside Job-1, God of Love-1)
The King's Speech wave did not really materialize, but The Social Network didn't/couldn't take advantage of that (except, perhaps in the Best Score Category). The biggest beneficiaries were Alice in Wonderland and Inception.
And...James Franco...No, Anne Hathaway...Yes.
Later this week on MTFB/The OC...post Oscar interviews with Academy voters and industry insiders. Check back in!
Hey Mike,
ReplyDeleteI was 17 of 24 as well. Won the family oscar pick'em contest we always have beating Noel by one! He called and congratulated me and ate a little crow as well!
Fred Collins