Oscar Winners: How Did I Do?

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RIGHT

BEST PICTURE (The Hurt Locker)
BEST ACTOR (
Jeff BridgesCrazy Heart)
BEST ACTRESS (
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (
Christoph WaltzInglourious Basterds)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (
Mo’NiquePrecious)

BEST DIRECTOR (Kathryn BigelowThe Hurt Locker)
BEST SONG (“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham)
BEST ANIMATED FILM (
Up)
BEST DOCUMENTARY (
The Cove)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY  (Avatar)
BEST EDITING (The Hurt Locker)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (Avatar)
BEST ART DIRECTION (Avatar)
BEST MAKEUP (Star Trek)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT (
Music by Prudence)

WRONG

Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER: El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)

My pick: Ajami (Israel)

Best Score
WINNER:
Up
My pick:
Sherlock Holmes

Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

My pick: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER:  Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
My pick: Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Sound Mixing
WINNER:
The Hurt Locker
My pick: Avatar

Best Sound Editing
WINNER: The Hurt Locker
My pick: Star Trek

Best Costume Design
WINNER: The Young Victoria
My pick: Coco Before Chanel

Best Live-Action Short
WINNER: The New Tenants

My pick: Instead of Abracadabra

Best Animated Short
WINNER: Logorama

My pick: A Matter of Loaf and Death

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15 out of 24.  Not bad.  I got all the "major" awards.  Would like to have done better on the screenplays…..