Academy Awards
I know nothing about acting and filmmaking, and I loath award shows, but my friend Possum has issued a challenge for the best Oscar predictions and I'm going to give it a stab. I only remember seeing 4 movies this year, and I doubt any of them will win a prize, so this is pretty much a shot in the dark, but here goes...
Actor in a leading role: Hoffman
Actor in a supporting role: Gyllenhaal
Actress in a leading role: Huffman
Actress in a supporting role: Keener
Animated Feature: Corpse Bride
Art direction: Pride and Prejudice
Cinematography: The New World
Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha
Directing: Crash
Documentary Feature: March of the Penguins
Documentary Short: The Mushroom Club
Film Editing: Munich
Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi
Makeup: Star Wars
Music (score): Memoirs of a Geisha
Music (song): It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
Best Picture: Crash
Short Film (animated): One Man Band
Short Film (live action): Ausreisser
Sound Editing: King Kong
Sound Mixing: King Kong
Visual effects: King Kong
Writing (adapted screenplay): Brokeback Mountain
Writing (original screenplay): Crash
impressive
Thanks for joining the competition, Miles. I'll have mine posted in a day or two.
Crazy picks, we'll see in 4 days! You gonna post a follow-up? Speaking of posts, you gonna ever post here again? :) Have a nice first day of March!
11 out of 24 is much better than the 25 percent you would expect if I was just drawing out of a hat, so I'm going to give myself props for that. I'll also take credit for predicting Crash above Brokeback Mountain, and the triple play for King Kong. Big misses (what was I thinking?!) were The Moon and the Son and Six Shooter. GOSH!!!
If you check my pics, I KNEW Six Shooter was gonna take it.
I think my competition killed this blog...either that or Miles caught my Posting Once a Month Syndrome.