the blog of nathan loding

Thoughts: It appears I’m not show­ing myself to be worth my salt at pick­ing the Oscar win­ners. I am truly sur­prised by both Actress cat­e­gories, and espe­cially by the Edit­ing award. And I couldn’t rise above the 60%. Iron­i­cally I scored the ‘reverse’ of what I wanted — 58% instead of 85%.

Note: I inad­ver­tantly for­got to include Cin­e­matog­ra­phy in my pre­dic­tions. My pre­dic­tion was for Atone­ment, which, unfor­tu­nately, lost tonight.

My Score: 11 of 19 (58%)

Best Achieve­ment in Cos­tume Design: CORRECT!
Best Ani­mated Fea­ture Film of the Year: CORRECT!
Best Achieve­ment in Makeup: CORRECT!
Best Achieve­ment in Visual Effects: NOPE … The Golden Com­pass
Best Achieve­ment in Art Direc­tion: NOPE … Sweeney Todd
Best Achieve­ment by an Actor in a Sup­port­ing Role: CORRECT!
Best Achieve­ment by an Actress in a Sup­port­ing Role: NOPE … Tilda Swin­ton
Best Writ­ing, Screen­play Best on Mate­r­ial Pre­vi­ously Pro­duced or Pub­lished: CORRECT!
Best Achieve­ment in Sound Edit­ing: NOPE … The Bourne Ulti­ma­tum
Best Achieve­ment in Sound: NOPE … The Bourne Ulti­ma­tum
Best Per­for­mance by an Actress in a Lead­ing Role: NOPE … Mar­ion Cotil­lard
Best Achieve­ment in Edit­ing: NOPE … The Bourne Ulti­ma­tum
Best Achieve­ment in Music Writ­ten for Motion Pic­tures, Orig­i­nal Song: CORRECT!
Best Achieve­ment in Cin­e­matog­ra­phy: NOPE … There Will Be Blood
Best Achieve­ment in Music Writ­ten for Motion Pic­tures, Orig­i­nal Score: CORRECT!
Best Writ­ing, Screen­play Writ­ten Directly for the Screen: CORRECT!
Best Per­for­mance by an Actor in a Lead­ing Role: CORRECT!
Best Achieve­ment in Direct­ing: CORRECT!
Best Motion Pic­ture of the Year: CORRECT!