Well, it's a good thing I didn't have any MONEY riding on the Oscars because my predictions SUCKED! Of the ten categories for which I made predictions in my last post, only four (40%) proved to be accurate:
Best Costume Design:
Ruth E. Carter for Black Panther
Best Original Song:
Lady Gaga et al for "Shallow" from A Star is Born.
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Charlie Wachtel, Spike Lee et al for BlacKkKlansman
Best Supporting Actress:
Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk
My other six predictions (60%) were horribly wrong!
Best Original Screenplay:
I predicted Adam McKay for Vice, but the winner was Nick Vallelonga et al for Green Book.
Best Actress:
Not Glenn Close for The Wife, but Olivia Colman for The Favourite.
Best Actor:
Sorry, Willem Dafoe for At Eternity's Gate, it was Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody.
Best Supporting Actor:
Get lost, Sam Elliott for A Star is Born, the Academy picked Mahershala Ali for Green Book.
Best Picture:
Green Book again! Too bad, so sad, Bohemian Rhapsody.
Best Director:
I was shocked, SHOCKED, that it was not Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman. Alfonso Cuarón of Roma took the coveted prize.
Oh well, c'est la vie. Some of the world's greatest NEVER win an Oscar.
Green Book is the Driving Miss Daisy of 2019.
ReplyDeleteThe Gaga/Cooper performance was fire.
Billy Porter gave me life on the Red Carpet.
Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd do not age.
Now I have to go see The Favourite.
xoxo
Olivia won over Glenn??? Da hell? Olivia is a terrible actress, no comedy in her whatsoever and yet people seem to think she's funny.
ReplyDeleteI hate to tell you I told you so about Rami, but I told you so :PPP
I'm ever so glad that crap Panther did not win best movie, that would have been a tragic suicide for the Oscars.
As they say "you can't win them all!"
ReplyDeleteI think you did pretty damn good!!!
Didn't watch. But I have watched Lady Gaga who is all over the news this morning.
ReplyDeleteGlenn Close not winning was a surprise for many!
ReplyDeleteAs a person that never goes to movie, I am clueless about who was even up for awards. I never watch the show. Sorry your predictions weren't closer.
ReplyDeleteI haven't watched the Oscars in years. I did see a photo of the tuxedo dress.
ReplyDeleteI have given up watching the Oscars. I just want to know what the stars wore on the red carpet. I loved Hellen Mirren's orange and pink gown. So pretty. Linda Cardellini looked like she was wearing her bedroom negligee robe and forgot to dress so she made the best of it. What the fuck was Maya Rudolph wearing? It looked like curtains from a child's bedroom.
ReplyDeletebilly porter should have won something...that dress/tux was fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI give you an A for effort! Maybe next year you will do better!
ReplyDeleteI'd trust you more to choose the most deserving. It's as if they do a blindfolded draw a winner out of a bag of names. I don't care to watch them anymore.
ReplyDeleteA good, safe week to you.
Hey, you still guessed 40% more correctly than I did or could have!
ReplyDeleteSpike should'a won for BlacKkKlansman. That was a great movie.
ReplyDeleteJust because you didn't pick the same as the judges, doesn't mean you weren't right. Perhaps you should post awards to your pick - the Deboscars.
ReplyDeletethe Ol'Buzzard
Seems like they remake A Star is Born about every five years now. Who are the people of the Academy, really?
ReplyDeleteYou gave it your best shot!
ReplyDeleteCate Blanchett was not nominated this year, so I had little interest in the Oscars.
ReplyDeleteI think Green Book took most by surprise
ReplyDeleteWin some ...lose some. ;)
ReplyDeleteC'est la vie, for sure! I only saw "A Star is Born." I may hunt up a few of the others on cable. Have a great week, and thanks for your fearless predictions.
ReplyDeleteAlways going gaga for Gaga … smiles … Love, cat.
ReplyDeleteSome of the world's greatest NEVER win an Oscar.
ReplyDeleteStory of my life. I am CRIMINALLY unregonized for my genius. They picked the wrong 'feel good' movie starting a black man. But I was happy for Malek but Glen Close is in treatment. She wanted it soooo bad.
Like I wrote in my comment on your last oscar post - Star is Born and Green Book were great movies.
ReplyDeleteEven I was a tad surprised by some of the nominations, and I'm not half (heck, a sixth) as adept at seeing these things as you are.
ReplyDeleteFunny cartoon at the end.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to know!!! You didn't do too bad! LOL!
ReplyDeletethey don't have your vision my friend
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