Allison Kucera
(please keep your acceptance speech to a respectable 90 seconds; if we hear you start to thank your publicist's dog-walker, we're going to lower the microphone through the floor)Allison correctly guessed 21 Oscar winners out of 24 (she only missed on Best Director, Foreign Language Film, and Animated Short). She did a lot better than me with my paltry 13 correct guesses.
Thanks to all who participated in this year's contest. I was thrilled to see there were so many fellow Oscar enthusiasts out there....or, at least, a number of bored internet surfers who were hoping to win a boxed set of Criterion DVDs (Great Adaptations
). Here are the results of the top-two finishers in each category of the Oscar race, as voted by you, the Quivering Pen readers (I've highlighted the actual winners):Best Picture:
The King's Speech (84% of your votes)
The Social Network (9%)
Best Director:
David Fincher (56%)
Tom Hooper (30%)
Best Actor:
Colin Firth (99%)
Jeff Bridges (1%)*
Best Actress:
Natalie Portman (90%)
Annette Bening (6%)
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale (80%)
Geoffrey Rush (18%)
Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa Leo (60%)
Hailee Steinfeld (30%)
Best Original Screenplay:
The King's Speech (84%)
Inception (10%)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Social Network (87%)
127 Hours (6%)
Best Animated Feature Film:
Toy Story 3 (91%)
The Illusionist (5%)
Best Art Direction:
Alice in Wonderland (43%)
The King's Speech (33%)
Best Cinematography:
True Grit (62%)
Inception (15%)
Best Costume Design:
Alice in Wonderland (50%)
The King's Speech (41%)
Best Documentary (Feature):
Inside Job (44%)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (34%)
Best Documentary (Short Subject):
Strangers No More (38%)
Killing in the Name (26%)
Best Editing:
The Social Network (68%)
The King's Speech (13%)
Best Foreign Language Film:
Biutiful (48%)
In a Better World (32%)
Best Makeup:
The Wolfman (73%)
The Way Back (15%)
Best Original Score:
The Social Network (56%)
The King's Speech (30%)
Best Original Song:
"We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3 (60%)
"If I Rise" from 127 Hours (22%)
Best Animated Short Film:
Day and Night (46%)
The Gruffalo (26%)
Only 12% of you picked the winner, The Lost Thing
Best Live Action Short Film:
Na Wewe (27%)
God of Love (24%)
Best Sound Editing:
Inception (80%)
Tron: Legacy (9%)
Best Sound Mixing:
Inception (70%)
The King's Speech (15%)
Best Visual Effects:
Inception (88%)
Alice in Wonderland (7%)
*Am I the only one who thinks Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network deserved at least 2 percent of your votes?
Photo credit: Reuters
I voted for Colin Firth, not because I thought he should win it but because I thought he would win it. I thought Eisenberg uniquely inhabited the role of Zuckerberg, so much so that he became his character to me and when I saw them standing side by side on the SNL stage, it was Zuckerberg who seemed wrong for the part.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. Eisenberg was more than just an actor playing a character, he *was* that person. I walked out of the theater completely blown away.
Of course, the same could be said about Firth, who equally deserved the award. This was a tough year to choose. I would have liked to see a tie with both of them holding the Best Actor statuette.
Agreed. I suppose that when that sort of thing occurs, the "body of work" becomes the tie-breaker. Hopefully, that won't turn out to be THE PART of Eisenberg's career.
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