Final Guru Rundown
I only got 63% of the Oscar winners right last Sunday. (In part because I was unable to absorb what I’d sensed about Meryl Streep winning Best Actress.) In any event I relate to others who are so swayed by their own determinations that their ability to gauge what the Academy is thinking is, shall we say, compromised. I feel kinship, in other words, with prognosticators like Anne Thompson, David Poland, Greg Ellwood, Mark Harris and Stu VanAirsdale, all of whom wound up with not-so-hot rankings among the Gurus of Gold Oscar-pickers.
Poland always refuses to post the final results of Gurus of Gold Oscar predictions, so once again here are the results with the number of correct calls (the total categories being 24) in parantheses:
1. Pete Hammond (19); 2. Kris Tapley (19); 3. Mark Olsen (18); 4. Sasha Stone (18); 5. Steve Pond (18); 6. Anthony Breznican (17); 7. Peter Howell (17); 8. Susan Wloszczyna (17); 9. “Safe Dave” Karger (17); 10. Anne Thompson (16); 11. David Poland (15); 12. Greg Ellwood (14); 13. Mark Harris (14); and 14. Stu VanAirsdale (14).
If nothing else, Streep is the most perceptive individual in the filmmaking community…..at the Oscar viewing get-together I attended….Streep perfectly described our reaction….a chorus of disgusted groans and “not her” mutterings….
3 wins, 18 nominations, the percentage isn’t good.
All the Best Actress nominees were unmemorable this year. I didn’t see Mara’s (which came with a template) but the rest were bio-portraits and sufferers.The performances I’ll recall ten years from now are Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia), Anna Paquin (Margaret), Charlize Theron (Young Adult), and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids).
Viola’s Oscar loss is the most heartless act ever by Harvey ‘The Devil’ Weinstein.
Wow, cyanic. You honestly Harvey has THAT much pull in Hollywood?
Of course, that should be “honestly think” above.
I think race played a role for some of the older white male Academy voters who weren’t interested in her and outright refused to vote for her but in the end I do believe there were a lot of people who drank the Master Streep Kool-Aid.
I think that he had an easy enough time selling ‘The Artist’ to the voters that they went along with a few other things for him, including Actress and maybe Documentary (I still can’t believe that they voted against a movie which got three people out of jail).
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