Academy Awards
Oscar 2010
The Oscars are on tonight. Like many people, I’ll be watching. And like many people, I have my own predictions on who’s going to win. Those are listed below, and I just wanted to say I found this year to be one of the more predictable years in a while. Or, rather, I found myself the most sure of my predictions in a while. Meaning, there were very few categories where I had a hard time choosing.
Out of my predictions below, there’s only three where I’m not completely comfortable with my guesses:
Original Screenplay: I can think up equally valid reasons for each of these nominees to win, and in the end I went with my personal preference.
Costume Design: To my mind this category has three front runners: Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel, and The Young Victoria. I’m going with Victoria because of the Academy’s voting history in this category.
Art Direction: I’m thinking this one is Avatar’s to lose, but if it does lose I think it’s going to go to The Imagniarium of Doctor Parnassus. My gut tells me it’ll be the doctor, but my brain tells me it’ll be the Na’vi. I’m going with my gut on this one.
Anywho, these are my predictions for this year:
| Picture | Avatar |
| Director | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Actor | Jeff Bridges |
| Actress | Sandra Bullock |
| Supporting Actor | Christoph Waltz |
| Supporting Actress | Mo’Nique |
| Original Screenplay | Inglourious Basterds |
| Adapted Screenplay | Up in the Air |
| Editing | Avatar |
| Animated Feature | Up |
| Cinematography | Avatar |
| Art Direction | Imagniarium of Dr. Parnassus |
| Costume Design | The Young Victoria |
| Foreign Film | The White Ribbon |
| Make Up | Star Trek |
| Original Score | Avatar |
| Original Song | Crazy Heart |
| Visual Effects | Avatar |
| Sound Mixing | Avatar |
| Sound Editing | Avatar |
I realize I left out a couple of categories, but I haven’t yet seen any of the movies competing in those so it’d be pure title-based guesswork. Figured I might as well not bother.
added day after the show: Well, so much for “one of the more predictable years in a while”… I ended up with 12 out of the 20, which is pretty weak. Out of the eight I got wrong, there’s only one (Art Direction) that I was more or less expecting to get wrong, and a couple were I wasn’t too surprised at the outcome, but for the rest I was pretty confident in my picks. Oh well, at least I tied with my wife. 