Post your oscar pool score here.

[Skinner]

It is your job to tally your own score. Post your score in this thread. I'll verify the winner sometime Monday.

Most correct answers wins. In the event of a tie, we'll compare answers on the tiebreaker question. If there is still a tie, then I'll flip a coin or something.

The winner of the oscar pool wins their choice of any item in the DU Store.

Here are the results.


Best Picture
“Crash” (Lions Gate)
A Bob Yari/DEJ/Blackfriar’s Bridge/ Harris Company/ApolloProscreen GmbH & Co./Bull’s Eye Entertainment Production
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers

Director
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Ang Lee

Actress
Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)

Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)

Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)

Supporting Actor
George Clooney in “Syriana” (Warner Bros.)

Animated feature film
“Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit” (DreamWorks Animation SKG)
Nick Park and Steve Box

Art direction
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau

Cinematography
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Dion Beebe

Costume design
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Colleen Atwood

Documentary feature
“March of the Penguins” (Warner Independent Pictures)
A Bonne Pioche Production
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau

Documentary short subject
“A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin”
A NomaFilms Production
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Film editing
“Crash” (Lions Gate)
Hughes Winborne

Foreign language film
“Tsotsi”
A Moviworld Production
South Africa

Makeup
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
(Buena Vista)
Howard Berger and Tami Lane

Original score
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla

Original song
“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from“Hustle & Flow” (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment)
Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard

Animated short film
“The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation”
A John Canemaker Production
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern

Live action short film
“Six Shooter” (Sundance Film Channel)
A Missing in Action Films and Funny Farm Films Production
Martin McDonagh

Sound editing
“King Kong” (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

Sound mixing
“King Kong” (Universal)
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

Visual effects
“King Kong” (Universal)
Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor

Adapted screenplay
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

Original screenplay
“Crash” (Lions Gate)
Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco
Story by Paul Haggis

Tiebreaker
What time do they announce the name of the Best Picture winner? (Eastern Time) 11:23 PM ET

[cynatnite]

1. I only got about four or five right...

I always do a lousy job of guessing these.

[huskerlaw]

2. 15 right

and 3 minutes off on the tie breaker. :)

[BattyDem]

3. I got 16

I can't believe it! How the heck did I do that? :shrug:

[MGKrebs]

4. 13.

[SharonRB]

5. I got 15

And I said 11:22 for presentation of the best picture -- Nicholson came on stage at 11:22, but the envelope was opened at 11:23.

[Ediacara]

6. :-(

Just 10. I think Nicholson was joking because he was drunk...

[serryjw]

7. ICan I win the RAZ award?

n/t

[Hissyspit]

8. I got 17.

Way off on the tiebreaker.

What I got right: DIRECTOR, ACTOR, ACTRESS, SUPPORTING ACTRESS, SUPPORTING ACTOR, ANIMATED FEATURE, ART DIRECTION, COSTUME, DOCU FEATURE, FILM EDITING, FOREIGN LANGUAGE, MAKE-UP, ORGINAL SCORE, SOUND EDITING, VISUAL EFFECTS, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

What I got wrong: BEST PICTURE!!!! (Cop-out, Academy!)
CINEMATOGRAPHY, DOCU SHORT, ORIGINAL SONG, ANIMATED SHORT, LIVE ACTION SHORT, SOUND MIXING

[crispini]

14. Ooo, very good!

You're first so far!

[Hissyspit]

17. I'm sure someone will get 18. Plenty to check in.

But, hey, I was playing for serious!

I should have got King Kong for sound mixing, I put King Kong for sound editing, so...
I was wildly guessing for Original Song. There were three choices and they all sucked.

I missed all the shorts - WHO THE HELL WATCHES THE SHORTS!

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. 11

boo

[Catchawave]

10. 12

Good Show, loved Jon !

[nonconformist]

11. I only got 9 correct.

I suck so very much.

[Katherine Brengle]

30. Same here--but I only saw one of the movies, lol--so not too bad. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

12. 15.

[KyndCulture]

13. 14 not too bad! nt

[DanCa]

15. 1...Reese Witherspoon.

Sigh no cinderella man, nothing zip nadda. No Batman Begins *Sigh* How the hell did king kong make it on the list?

[LynneSin]

54. Geez, how can you just get 1

I mean, everyone accidently hits one of the oddball ones like best film editing or makeup

[bigwillq]

16. 17

tie-breaker was 12:08 a.m.
Here were my choices:


Best Picture
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)

Director
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Ang Lee

Actress
Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)

Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)

Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)


Supporting Actor
George Clooney in “Syriana” (Warner Bros.)

Animated feature film
“Howl’s Moving Castle” (Buena Vista)
Hayao Miyazaki


Art direction
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)


Cinematography
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Rodrigo Prieto

Costume design
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Colleen Atwood

Documentary feature
“March of the Penguins” (Warner Independent Pictures)


Documentary short subject
“The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club”

Film editing
“Crash” (Lions Gate)


Foreign language film
“Tsotsi”
A Moviworld Production
South Africa

Makeup
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
(Buena Vista)

Original score
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla


Original song
“In the Deep” from “Crash” (Lions Gate)

Animated short film
“One Man Band”
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews

Live action short film
“Six Shooter” (Sundance Film Channel)


Sound editing
“King Kong” (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn


Sound mixing
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista)
Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson

Visual effects
“King Kong” (Universal)


Adapted screenplay
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)

Original screenplay
“Crash” (Lions Gate)
Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco

Tiebreaker
What time do they announce the name of the Best Picture winner?
12:08 EST
(Eastern Time)

[Hissyspit]

19. You beat me. I was way off on the tiebreaker.

I said 12:25 a.m. (I didn't watch the last few years, so I was wildly guessing.)

[bigwillq]

21. I think the show ended before midnight, est

last year too but for some reason I thought the show would go longer this year. Oh well.
I think someone will get 18.
The choices were mainly predicatable this year besides Crash's semi-uspet.

[bikebloke]

18. I only chose 9 right

If that's the way Hollywood feels, then I'll just stop watching movies. So there.

And I missed the final announcement by two minutes of 11:25. So maybe I'll watch only a couple.

[RubyDuby in GA]

20. I am embarrassed by my results

8/24. A pitiful showing.

I can't believe that I won last year.

The Academy lost its damn mind this year. Crash???? Whatever..... I hope they don't expect me to take them seriously over the course of the next year. I hold grudges.

[bigwillq]

22. You won last year?

Cool. :toast:

[ironflange]

64. I won two years ago

I chose to retire undefeated. I just went with Lord of the Rings across the board, with a few lucky guesses. Still had to win the tie breaker, though. I'm still enjoying my stylish long-sleeve T shirt.

[Hissyspit]

23. I've never taken them seriously.

But Crash over Brokeback? Pathetic. That goop over Larry McMurtry?

[terrya]

24. 9

[nuxvomica]

25. Just 11 and 24 minutes later on the tiebreaker

A personal best! :woohoo:

[2QT2BSTR8]

26. The Academy totally did a cop-out on Best picture, but I still got 8.

[Hissyspit]

29. Welcome to DU! And yes it was a cop-out.

[LynneSin]

27. 13 here

I'm not sure why I had 12:47 for the end time, I was an hour off of the start time thinking it would start at 9

[cedahlia]

28. 14

But I'm so pissed about that contrived, impotent, intelligence-insulting dreck winning best pic that I can't guarantee I did an accurate count. I know the Academy has made embarrassing choices in the past, but goddamn, I think this one takes the cake. :eyes: :puke:

[pableaux]

31. 20!!!

& I was only 2 minutes off on the tiebreaker! Whoo hoo!

[Hissyspit]

33. Did you get Best Picture????

[bigwillq]

35. No they didn't (nt)

[bigwillq]

36. Here are pableaux's picks:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4833790&mesg_id=4840716

[crispini]

37. Damn! Good job!

Congrats!

[bigwillq]

38. That's a very good job.

:toast:

[nonconformist]

39. Wow! Amazing! nt

[pableaux]

42. Thanks!

I owe it all to luck & the fact that the Academy used Diebold electronic voting machines.

[qanda]

77. ....

:spray:

Congratulations and welcome to DU. :hi:

[SharonRB]

55. Congrats!

From what I can see, looks like you're the winner.

[Pithlet]

32. 14

But I was only two minute off on the tie breaker. I said 11:25.

[memory]

34. I got 15

Hubby and I thought that Jon did pretty well. I saw there was already a review out slamming him. Nobody can ever be better than Billy Crystal, but Stewart was funny.

I felt awful for Lauren Bacall. Could she not see the prompter?:shrug:

[Julius Civitatus]

40. Unfair awards, for the most part. This is what I think:

Here are my impressions of this year's Oscars (the yearly celebration of Hollywood's nepotistic onanism).

- Clooney: Yeah!!! Way way to go! He was prescient too: it meant he wasn´t getting the Oscar for director. He knows how it works.

- Wallace & Grommit: Excellent. Well deserved. Love those movies.

- March of the Penguins: Very well deserved indeed, but it was a tough call. I've seen all the documentaries nominated this year, and they were all excellent (the Enron documentary may have been too wonky, but it was an excellent film). I thought Darwin's Nightmare could have walked away with the Oscar easily. One of the most gut-wrenching movies I've seen this year.

- The very shameful "let's rescue that turd" award of the year goes to "Memoirs of Geisha." Notice that every year they do the same thing: They give a few awards to a movie they expected was going to do very well in the box office, but ended up a flop. This year it was Geisha, which got a few technical awards in an effort to make up for their losses with the upcoming DVD sales (yes people, the Oscars are all about selling the movies). If you remember, last year's "let's rescue that turd" award went to "Finding Neverland." And the year before to "Cold Mountain."

- Best Costume and Art Direction should have gone to "Walk the Line." Hands down. Instead they gave both awards to "Geisha." People tend to believe that recreating something very ancient or exotic has more merit than recreating something more mundane. Big mistake. And while it is very difficult to build complex period pieces, it's usually even more difficult to recreate our recent past and make it believable. The costumes and art direction in "Walk the Line" are so proper and so legit that if you transfered that movie to vintage film stock, you would think it was a documentary. They got robbed, but I guess they had to rescue that turd from financial disaster...

- The best editing I saw of all the movies nominated this year was "Cinderella Man," by a long shot. The editing in that movie was masterful. "Crash"???? Gimme a break! There was only a couple of scenes in which the editing in crash was remarkable (the actual car crash scene). Other than that, it was standard Hollywood craft. Another movie that got robbed.

- Best song to "IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP"? WTF??? WTF??? Possibily the most distasteful lyrics ever to be awarded with an Oscar. I really liked "Hustle and Flow," and loved its spirit of personal growth and fighting for your own dreams.... Still, the lyrics by DJay were DESPICABLE, sexist, machoist and tasteless. The only thing remarkable about that despicable song is the spirit the actors put into it when they sing it in the movie. Period.

- Reese was cute and perky... but better than Felicity? No way. Felicity got mugged tonight. But again, remember that the Oscars are not about recognizing squat. The Oscars are about selling movies, and now Reese is a young and perky asset to sell many more movies in the future. Felicity is an amazing actress with incredible talent... but she's over 40. Kids won't go to the mall's cineplex to see Felicity. That's the sad reality of (most of) the Oscars.

- "Crash" best movie? You gotta be kidding me! While I don't' think it was a bad flick, it pulled lots of punches in the end. Lots! And they turned the end into an unrealistic, politically correct, kumbayá singing, feel-good little morsel to sell to the masses and make them feel better about themselves. This movie was nowhere near the Best

[aaronbees]

41. 16...

Not bad -- I went with my heart in a couple places when I knew I shouldn't have. I had a sneaking suspicion "Crash" could get up for the win but thought Brokeback's class would carry the day. Oh well .... that was fun :)

[AussieDave]

43. I got 9 - how crappy is that ??

"Crash" getting Best Picture just blew me away............

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. 11 for me

I'm surprised I got that many. :-)

[benny05]

45. 14

Pretty happy still with results

When I saw that Brokeback won best adapted screen play, followed by Crash winning best Original screenplay, I knew then Crash would win.

[qanda]

46. I got 12 right

Much better than I thought I would do. I never win anything, but it was fun to play along.

[Divine Discontent]

62. only twelve here, too.

we tried.

[Lady President]

47. 15

Considering I haven't seen a movie in several years, not too shabby.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. 11 eom

[jmowreader]

49. I got seven

Best Picture:
Jim said: Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Crash

Director:
Jim said: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

Actress:
Jim said: Keira Knightley, Pride and Prejudice
The Academy said: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Actor:
Jim said: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Supporting Actress:
Jim said: Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Supporting Actor:
Jim said: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: George Clooney, Syriana

Animated Feature:
Jim said: Howl's Moving Castle
The Academy said: Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Art Direction:
Jim said: Pride and Prejudice
The Academy said: Memoirs of a Geisha

Cinematography:
Jim said: Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Memoirs of a Geisha

Costume Design:
Jim said: Pride and Prejudice
The Academy said: Memoirs of a Geisha

Documentary Feature:
Jim said: March of the Penguins
The Academy said: March of the Penguins

Documentary Short:
Jim said: God Sleeps in Rwanda
The Academy Said: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

Film Editing:
Jim said: The Constant Gardener
The Academy said: Crash

Foreign Language:
Jim said: Tsotsi
The Academy said: Tsotsi

Makeup:
Jim said: Chronicles of Narnia
The Academy said: Chronicles of Narnia

Original Score:
Jim said: Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Brokeback Mountain

Original Song:
Jim said: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
The Academy said: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp

Animated Short:
Jim said: One Man Band
The Academy said: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

Live Action Short:
Jim said: The Last Farm
The Academy said: Six Shooter

Sound Editing:
Jim said: War of the Worlds
The Academy said: King Kong

Sound Mixing:
Jim said: War of the Worlds
The Academy Said: King Kong

Visual Effects:
Jim said: War of the Worlds
The Academy said: King Kong

Adapted Screenplay:
Jim said: Brokeback Mountain
The Academy said: Brokeback Mountain

Original Screenplay:
Jim said: Good Night, and Good Luck
The Academy Said: Crash

Tiebreaker:
Jim said: 9:47pm; the award came down at 11:23

[Frank Cannon]

50. 14. I know I lost, but that's the best I've ever done on these things! nt

[npincus]

51. 14

I wish Felicity Huffman won instead of the 29 million dollar woman (Witherspoon). But was rooting for "Crash"-- yippee!

[babylonsister]

52. Only 12 here. I'm out, but good luck! nt

[Midlodemocrat]

53. 9 right. Not bad considering I only saw War of the Worlds!!!

[AwakeAtLast]

56. 13

:cry: Wahhh! I didn't win!

But it's an honor just to play! ;)

It was fun, thanks for doing this! :hi:

[OrwellwasRight]

57. I got 15.

I tied for first in the pool we had at the watching party last night. I won $10. Good enough for me. :-)

[Pithy Cherub]

58. Within one minute of the tiebreaker, got BEST PIC absolutely right

and scored 14. Brokeback was good, but Crash was best. I had that picked back in June as my movie of the year.

[suzbaby]

59. 13

No winner here :)

[catbert836]

60. 11 Right, 13 Wrong.

Better than I usually do.

[MrPrax]

61. I got 9...

pfft! I will rely less on critics--had a feeling 'Crash' was going to do the 'Traffic' thing this year...same sorta low-key buzz due to the fact it came out in the Spring.

[geniph]

63. I got 15 right, and was 5 minutes over the tiebreaker.

[NJ Democrats]

65. I got 15 right and was 23 minutes short.

[bloodyohio]

66. 15 for me, not too bad

Felicity Huffman got robbed; Reese Witherspoon was basically playing herself.

[philosophie_en_rose]

67. Twelve

Actress
Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)

Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)

Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)

Art direction
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Costume design
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Documentary feature
“March of the Penguins” (Warner Independent Pictures)

Film editing
“Crash” (Lions Gate)

Foreign language film
“Tsotsi”

Original score
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla

Sound editing
“King Kong” (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

Visual effects
“King Kong” (Universal)

Original screenplay
“Crash” (Lions Gate)

Tiebreaker
at 2 hours and 58 minutes from starting time. 9:58 PM EST

[Reverend_Smitty]

68. Eh only 16 this year...

it was a bit of a down year for me

[LibDemAlways]

69. I got 16. Not enough to win, but respectable.

[hyphenate]

70. I got about a 7

So I'm out of the running completely.

[BluePatriot]

71. I got 14

That was fun :)

[Chichiri]

72. 12

and off by 19 minutes.

[RockaFowler]

73. I got 16 right

I missed Best Picture. I wanted Good Night Good Luck to win. I'm glad that Clooney won Supporting Actor at least

[SoCalDem]

74. 12 for me

:(

[Skinner]

75. Did anyone do better than 20?

Here's your last chance to let us know.

[ScreamingMeemie]

76. Would you believe 62???

I didn't think so... :hi:

[NYdemocrat089]

78. I only had 15 right.

Congrats to whoever won! :toast:

[terrya]

79. No one won the Oscar pool?

[Skinner]

80. pableaux won

20 right. :thumbsup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4833790&mesg_id=4840716

[terrya]

81. Cool! Congratulations, pableaux!

:thumbsup:

[pableaux]

82. Thanks!

[lavenderdiva]

83. Congratulations, pableaux, and Welcome to DU!!