My Oscar Score - 8 for 24

Well if I were a MLBer I'd be a super-star batting .333.

I suppose this is how much I actually care anymore.  I saw exactly TWO of the winning films in the theater, Brave and Skyfall.


For the record:

2012 - 11 for 24
2010 - 13 for 24
2009 - 8 for 9 (I didn't pick the entire field)

Oscar Preditions

My Picks are double starred

BEST MOTION PICTURE

**Argo

Amour

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

Ang Lee, Life of P i

Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild

** David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook

Michael Haneke, Amour

Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook

** Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Denzel Washington, Flight

Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

** Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty

Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Alan Arkin, Argo

Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

** Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook

Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Amy Adams, The Master

** Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook

Sally Field, Lincoln

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

** Brave

Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Wreck-It Ralph

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Amour, Michael Haneke

Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino

Flight, John Gatins

Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola

** Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

** Argo, Chris Terrio

Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin

Life of Pi, David Magee

Lincoln, Tony Kushner

Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

A Royal Affair (Denmark)

** Amour (Austria)

No (Chile)

War Witch (Canada)

Kontiki (Norway)

ORIGINAL SCORE

Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli

** Argo, Alexandre Desplat

Life of Pi, Mychael Danna

Lincoln, John Williams

Skyfall, Thomas Newman

ORIGINAL SONG

Before My Time, J. Ralph; Chasing Ice

Everybody Needs a Best Friend,Walter Murphy and Seth McFarlane; Ted

Pi’s Lullaby, Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri; Life of Pi

Skyfall, Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth; Skyfall

** Suddenly, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boulil; Les Misérables

ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN

Anna Karenina

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

** Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey

Django Unchained, Robert Richardson

Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda

** Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski

Skyfall, Roger Deakins

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran

** Les Misérables, Paco Delgado

Lincoln, Joanna Johnston

Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka

Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

5 Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers

** How to Survive a Plague

The Invisible War

Searching for Sugar Man

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Inocente

Kings Point

** Mondays at Racine

Open Heart

Redemption

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING

** Argo

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Hitchcock

** The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Les Misérables

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Adam and Dog

Fresh Guacamole

Head Over Heels

** Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"

Paperman

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

Asad

** Buzkashi Boys

Curfew

Death of a Shadow

Henry

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING

** Argo

Django Unchained

Life of Pi

Skyfall

Zero Dark Thirty

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING

Argo

** Les Misérables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

Skyfall

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Life of Pi

** Marvel’s The Avengers

Prometheus

Snow White and the Huntsman

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Superbowl XLVII - Ravens 34 - Niners 31 FINAL

And that's it - the Ravens hold 'em in the Red Zone, QBK can't pull off the magical come back and the Baltimore Ravens are the Superbowl Champions for the 2nd time.  Ray Lewis goes out with a ring.

Flacco is my MVP - 22-33 274 Yards, 3 TDs, 0 Ints.

The Niners finally lose a Superbowl.  I'm not disappointed, I really didn't care who won, I just wanted a good and interesting game, and that definitely happened.

Of course the Ravens make it interesting with taking the Safety for the free kick running more time off the clock.  Not a bad call though.  Don't even give the Niners enough time for a hail mary.

Final Superbowl Commercials

Samsung - Paul Rudd & Seth Rogan.  Yeah.  Sure.  Too Long.

Network Promo - That show with Ben Linus from Lost.  Not my thing.

Back to the game.  Final thoughts coming up.

Superbowl XLVII - Ravens 34 - Niners 29 2:00 4th

The Niners have never led per Jim Nantz, which is a rarity for them in a Superbowl.  Now they have about 4 minutes to a championship.  Do they have it or will Ray Lewis and the Ravens go out on top.

Frank Gore picks up 7 on first down, willing his way to a couple of extra yards.  QBK scrambles for the first down, stopping the clock at 3:40 on their own 36.

Vernon Davis has the ball go off his fingers, he had six and he knew it.

QBK comes right back with a 24 yard pass and catch.  He's over 300 yards now.

Gore with a long run down to the 7.  The Niners could get in before the 2 minute warning.  Which would probably be a mistake giving Flacco too much time to come back.

1st and Goal 2:39 remaining.
2nd and Goal from the 5.

Two Minute Warning

Superbowl Commercials Part 20

Tide - Miracle Stain - very cute.  Not earth shattering though.

Soda Stream - But how does it taste?

Network Promo -

And at this point in the game I can't imagine that there will be any other good commercials.


Mercedes Benz - Willem Dafoe channeling his inner Pacino.  Whatever.

Network Promo - Hawaii 5-0.  Used to watch it, got bored when the Governor who used to be a designing woman turned out  to be a horrible  person.

Network Promo - The Job - Watered down version of The Apprentice?

Superbowl XLVII - Ravens 34 Niners 29 4:19 4th

The Ravens seem like they're doing everything they can to run the clock down and finish this game, and the Niners are doing everything they can to thwart that effort.  Including challenging the spot of the ball on a possible 1st down.  Which they win.  Crazy.

Boldin makes a great play on 3rd down though to get another set of downs.  Running more and more time off the clock.  1st and 10 at the Niner 40.

Rice gets a 1st on 1st running for about 12.

Later on 3rd and 7 the Niners jump two players, and Harbaugh throws a fit on the sideline.  Giving the Raven 3rd and 2 with 4:28 to play.

Incomplete on 3rd down though.  So we'll get a 37 yard FG attempt.  Tucker drives it through and the Niners MUST score a TD to win this game.