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Good Post-Oscar Monday to All that have dialed up the blog today...

OSCAR MATTERS

Here's the rundown of last night's Oscar winners and a comment or two along the way.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: "Paperman".  FAC gets this right and this was the first film at TFF #39 to win an Oscar for the evening.

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: "Curfew".  FAC correct.  Telluride possible "Asad" does not win.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: "Inocente".  FAC goes 3 for 3 in the "short" film categories; a feat that would normally guarantee a stunning overall success rate for the night...hmmm...didn't happen.

BEST SOUND MIXING: "Les Miserables".  FAC correct.

BEST SOUND EDITING: The FAC had "Life of Pi" winning this barely over winners , that's right, winners...plural, an Oscar tie between "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty".  Various experts reported that it was the 6th tie in Oscar history.

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: "Life of Pi".  FAC right.

BEST MAKEUP/HAIR: "Les Miserables".  FAC right.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: "Anna Karenina"  The FAC gets it right.

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: "Lincoln".  This was a mild surprise over "Anna Karenina".  This was also 1 of 4 categories in which I had suggested that the metric might be wrong.  My "hunch", however was the "Life of Pi" would win.

BEST SCORE: "Life of Pi".  The FAC was back on track here.

BEST SONG: "Skyfall" from "Skyfall".  The FAC is right and there was never much doubt, although Adele's performance seemed to be overshadowed by Jennifer Hudson's and Barbra Streisand's and the Les Mis cast...at least to me.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: "Brave".  The FAC was leaning to "Wreck-It Ralph" so it misses.  I had a hunch that it might be "Brave".

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:  "Amour".  FAC gets this right.  "Amour's" only win of the night.  The FAC had it edging into the Original Screenplay Oscar and I had a hunch that Emmanuelle Riva would win Best Actress.  Nevertheless, this was the 2nd Oscar of the night for TFF #39 films.

BEST DOCUMENTARY:  "Searching for Sugarman".  FAC correct.

BEST FILM EDITING: "Argo".  FAC correct.  "Argo's" first win of the night and TFF #39 has it's third Oscar winner.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Life of Pi".  FAC is correct here.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Chris Terrio for "Argo". FAC is right.  "Argo's" 2nd award and number 4 for Telluride films.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained".  And here's where the FAC starts to go off the rails.  The FAC had an "Amour" win here, although all of the signs indicated a close race with "Django" right in the thick of it.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained".  FAC wrong here as well as it had DeNiro.  But this was an intense category and maybe the most competitive of the night.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:  Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables".  FAC right on this locked category.

BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day Lewis for "Lincoln".  Another easy FAC pick as this was a foregone conclusion.

BEST ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook".  FAC gets this one right and my hunch that Riva would win is off.

BEST DIRECTION: Ang Lee for "Life of Pi".  The FAC metric had Speilberg winning in  a close category.  I intuited a win by Lee.  "Hunches" go 2 of 4 for the night.

BEST PICTURE: "Argo".  The FAC and most of the rest of the Oscar pundit world is right.  TFF #39 with 5 Oscars from it's class this year.


TOTALS:
"Life of Pi"-4
"Argo"-3
"Les Miserables"-3
"Lincoln"-2
"Skyfall"-2
"Django Unchained"-2
 One apiece for: "Anna Karenina", "Zero Dark Thirty", "Amour", "Searching for Sugarman", "Paperman", "Curfew", "Silver Linings Playbook", "Brave" and "Inocente".

And yes, that's 25...because of the Sound Editing tie.

The FAC goes 18 of 24 or 75%.  My "hunchy" version actually does one batter to finish the night 19 of 24 or 79%.

AND not to beat a dead horse but 4 of the last 5 Best Picture winners started the Oscar season with a bow at Telluride.  2012: "Argo", 2011: "The Artist", 2010: "The King's Speech" and 2008: "Slumdog Millionaire".   2009 was "The Hurt Locker" winning.

And so that's Oscar and its connection to Telluride for another year.  This space will go back to its more sedentary 2 posts per week on Monday and Thursday mornings until we get to June (unless conditions warrant).  The blog also reverts to its original function (for the most part) which is to ferret out, conjecture and/or guess at what we might see in the San Juan Mountains over Labor Day weekend.

It's a five day affair this year starting on Thursday (Aug. 29) rather than Friday so there is even more to look forward to.

As always a huge thank you to Mitzi and Larry Mallard in Telluride at The river Club who make this whole weird obsession possible and a thanks as well to the very kind people who share there insight into their industry whether that be the folks in the movie biz or the Oscar bloggers whose work  sets the bar.

And, of course, to all you crazy peeps who look in on this page from time to time...thank you!

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