02.25.07

Oscar the Google

Posted in Media at 11 am

For my first Oscar office pool I’ve used a statistical method of picking based on nearly abritrary (and lingusitcally dubious) elements of Google’s results for the various nominees. You can see the list that I used below:

Best Picture

Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Director

Paul Greengrass, United 93
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel

Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Actress

Helen Mirren, The Queen
Kate Winslet, Little Children
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Penélope Cruz, Volver
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Supporting Actress

Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Original Screenplay

Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen

Adapted Screenplay

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Cinematography

The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Prestige

Editing

Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

Art Direction

Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Prestige

Costume Design

Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

Original Score

Babel
The Good Shepherd
Notes on a Scandal
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen

Original Song

I Need to Wake Up, An Inconvenient Truth
Our Town, Cars
Listen, Dreamgirls
Love You I Do, Dreamgirls
Patience, Dreamgirls

Makeup

Apocalypto
Click
Pan’s Labyrinth

Sound Editing

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Sound Mixing

Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Visual Effects

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

Animated Feature Film

Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Foreign Language Film

After the Wedding
Days of Glory
The Lives of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Water

Documentary Feature

Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Documentary Short

The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

Live Action Short

Binta and the Great Idea
Helmer & Son
One Too Many
The Saviour
West Bank Story

Animated Short

The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

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