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Contest Winner–Some Will Suspect Foul Play
In a tough year to predict the Oscars, the winner of the Strong Words giveaway got 14 correct predictions, making them only 58.3% correct. I remember back in 2004 (When Lord of the Rings: Return of the King took home all 11 of its Oscar nominations) I predicted all but 4, lucking out on animated and live action short. So, all-in-all, it was a fun year to make predictions, because the Academy threw some curveballs. No Country for Old Men won Best Picture as most predicted, Daniel Day Lewis and Javier Bardem took home acting awards, and Juno won Best Original Screenplay. Everything else was pretty much up for grabs. I mean, who would’ve thought that besides No Country (with 4 wins), The Bourne Ultimatum would be the second-most honored film (with 3 technical awards).
Most people in the Strong Words poll (roughly 77%) picked No Country to take it and 85% of contest entries picked Javier Bardem to win as well. Another seeming no-brainer for contest entrants was Best Original Screenplay as all but 3 people picked Juno (those three just happen to be Strong Words host Tim Toomey, special guest Craig Kaplowitz, and number 1 fan Gaseous Clay).
Here’s how our contest broke down:
Winner: Melanie Sizemore
Some may suspect foul play because she just happens to be ma’ lady, but she submitted her predictions the same as the rest of you. Here’s Melanie’s ballot, I’ve highlighted the winners:
- Picture: No Country
- Director: The Coen Brothers
- Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
- Actress: Marion Cotillard
- Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem
- Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett
- Original Screenplay: Juno
- Adapted Screenplay: No Country
- Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
- Editing: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Art Direction: Sweeney Todd
- Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Original Score: Michael Clayton
- Original Song: “Falling Slowly”–Once
- Makeup: Norbit
- Sound Editing: Transformers
- Sound Mixing: Ratatouille
- Visual Effects: Transformers
- Animated Feature: Ratatouille
- Foreign Language Film: Mongol
- Documentary Feature: No End in Sight
- Documentary Short: Freeheld
- Live Action Short: Les Mozart des Pickpockets
- Animated Shiort: I Met the Walrus
Melanie also got 7 of the 8 most important categories correct (Picture, Director, Screenplays, and Actors), which would’ve been the tie-breaker.
Runners-up:
Film School Rejects editor Neil Miller, Strong Words host Adam Angiulo, and Bill Radde got 50% of the awards predicted correctly.
Down to the gritty:
Grand prize (Melanie): Dinner at a restaurant of your choice and a night of sweet, sweet lovin’. Tote bag.
Second place (Neil and Bill): A framed, autographed picture of the SWinc crew and any film directed by the Coen Brothers (please respond in the comment section below with which you’d like).
Third place (Marilyn Blevin): A copy of Oil! by Upton Sinclair (the novel which There Will Be Blood is based). Please send an e-mail to me at josh_radde@yahoo.com telling me a shipping address.
Thank you for participating in the Strong Words Oscar Giveaway and soon we’ll be doing another giveaway with our picks for March Madness!
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how come your fuckin’ girlfriend gets a prize for first place, but i don’t get shit for tying in second with your homo brother and neil “fuckshit” miller?
I am partial to a $4.99 bargain FARGO DVD.
Also, I think I can speak for Neil in saying … I am glad I did not win first place!
… and Adam is a cold pile of worthless dogshit (not even ambitious enough to be a steaming pile of dogshit)
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That’s right Angiulo! You and me — second place! I’m glad to share it with Bill Radde, as he is not an uber-douche… You on the other hand…
I”m in for the Autographed pic of the Strong Words crew, but I require a personalized message of love from Tim Toomey. As for the Coens movie pic, I’m thinking Fargo… Who didn’t fucking love Fargo?
bill radde’s a far bigger douche than me. bill radde is the reason i’m an emotionally stunted man child.
Fargo was on the same level as No Country. Melanie don’t know shit. Since when did actors know anything about movies.
Fargo WAS on the same level as No Country. Both were genius. Is that what you mean?
Fargo was probably better in my books. Come on, the wood chipper, the awesome accents, way better.
Thank you Strong Words … I just received my copy of Fargo!
And I refuse to be held responsible for Adam’s shortcomings …
I do take responsibility for minimal verbal abuse, but I did none of the below things:
Molest Adam
Beat-up Adam
Stick anything in Adam’s cornhole
Force Adam to date heartless chicks
etc …
bill, there was some attempted molestation in the dells.
I was drunk you were in my bed … not my fault