Envelope Oscar prediction tallies
Now that it’s all over….the winners! “Five Envelope pundits tied for nailing seven predix out of those eight Oscar races: Pete Hammond (The Envelope), Dave Karger (Entertainment Weekly), Mark Olsen (The Envelope), Sasha Stone (AwardsDaily.com) and Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood-Elsewhere.com).
“Of the pundits who voted in all 24 categories, Hammond rules with 17 correct predix, followed by a score of 16 achieved by Edward Douglas (Comingsoon.net) and Jack Mathews (New York Daily News). Those who got 15 right included The Envelope‘s Tom O’Neil, Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Mark Olsen (The Envelope), Karger and Stone. I didn’t bother to fill out any more than 20 categories so I placed lower. I don’t care. I did okay.
I got 14/24 in the office pool and thought I did embarrassingly bad. I was too into the front-runners like Blanchett and Christie when no one was really passionate about either of those performances, at least not like they were Cotillard and Swinton. The Bourne wins threw me for a loop too. All in all, I think the results prove it’s all just a guessing game in the end. Unless you’re a member of the Academy, it’s hard to get a real grasp on what they are collectively thinking.
I was 10 for 24, my worst showing ever.
In the Top 8 categories, I was 6 for 8, missing on Actress and Supporting Actress, going with Page and Ryan in those spots.