The Oscars are tonight. I’ve always quite liked the Oscars, in spite of all the reasons not to. This year I decided to guess the winners. Here are my picks:
Picture
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Revenant
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Director
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Iñárritu
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Actor
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DiCaprio
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Actress
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Larson
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Supporting Actress
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Vikander
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Supporting Actor
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Stallone
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Original Screenplay
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Big Short
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Adapted Screenplay
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Spotlight
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Score
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Hateful Eight
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Song
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Til It Happens to You
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Sound Editing
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Mad Max
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Sound Mixing
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Revenant
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Hair and Makeup
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The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared
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Costume Design
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Carol
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Production Design
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Martian
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Cinematography
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Revenant
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Documentary Feature
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Amy
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Documentary Short
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Chau
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Live Action Short
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Stutterer
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Animated Short
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Sanjay's Super Team
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Animated Feature
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Inside Out
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Foreign Language
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Mustang
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Editing
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Mad Max
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Visual Effects
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Mad Max
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My methodology was to look at some other people’s picks, and go with the consensus. Where there were ties, I broke them in a few different ways. In the categories where hardly anyone will have seen the nominees, I went for the one rated by the most people on IMDB.com. I went for Mad Max over Star Wars in a couple of technical categories because I thought people might be a bit ashamed to vote for Star Wars. I went for Carol over The Danish Girl for costumes, and The Martian over Mad Max for production design, because Carol and The Martian went down pretty well and voters might want to make sure they got something, while Mad Max and The Danish Girl are probably winning in other categories. The only one where I overruled the professionals altogether was makeup, because I couldn’t think of a way of breaking the tie and I read somewhere that the 100 Year Old Man has pretty impressive old-person makeup. Also I really liked the book.
I’m looking forward to finding out how I did. If you think my picks are stupid, tell me why in the comments!
