What a frantic and exciting week! The Oscars are finally over, with the Academy bestowing the greatest honour in film, in the form of a little golden man, on deserving winners. There were memorable moments galore in a successfully organized ceremony, hosted by the brilliant Billy Crystal, who kept the whole event running smoothly without any glitch, and kept it on time!

[Film still from The Artist. The film won 5 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score]




This OSCAR BLOG #8 will list down the winners for each category, and how we fared in our predictions.

(Click here to view InCinemas' predictions published last week!)

The winners are...

[Image of Meryl Streep from The Iron Lady. The film won 2 Oscars for Best Lead Actress, and Best Makeup]



The Major Players
Best Picture: THE ARTIST (Correct prediction!)
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, THE ARTIST (Correct prediction!)
Best Leading Actor: Jean Dujardin, THE ARTIST (Correct prediction!)
Best Leading Actress: Meryl Streep, THE IRON LADY (Our dark horse!)
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, BEGINNERS (Correct prediction!)
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, THE HELP (Correct prediction!)

[Film still from Rango. The film won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature]



The Key Categories
Best Original Screenplay: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Correct prediction!)
Best Adapted Screenplay: THE DESCENDANTS (Correct prediction!)
Best Foreign Language Film: A SEPARATION (Correct prediction!)
Best Animated Film: RANGO (Correct prediction!)
Best Documentary: UNDEFEATED (Wrong prediction)

[Film still from A Separation. The film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film]



The Artistic Categories
Best Art Direction: HUGO (Correct prediction!)
Best Costume Design: THE ARTIST (Our dark horse!)
Best Makeup: THE IRON LADY (Correct prediction!)
Best Original Score: THE ARTIST (Correct prediction!)
Best Original Song: THE MUPPETS (Correct prediction!)

[Film still from Hugo. The film won 5 Oscars for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing]



The Technical Categories
Best Cinematography: HUGO (Our dark horse!)
Best Film Editing: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Wrong prediction)
Best Visual Effects: HUGO (Our dark horse!)
Best Sound Mixing: HUGO (Correct prediction!)
Best Sound Editing: HUGO (Correct prediction!)

[Film still from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The film won an Oscar for Best Film Editing]



We didn't predict for the categories for short films, but here are the winners...
Best Live Action Short: THE SHORE
Best Animated Short: THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS
Best Documentary Short: SAVING FACE

Yay! Out of the 21 categories for feature films that we had predicted last week, we scored 15 wins for predicting actual winners, 4 for predicting correctly the dark horses and 2 losses. We achieved a prediction accuracy of 71.4% or 90.5% (if including dark horses)!

A repeat telecast of the Oscars will be shown on FOX Movies Premium (StarHub TV Ch. 622 / 662 HD) on Monday 27 February, 8:30PM (SGT).

Previously in the InCinemas' OSCAR BLOG series, we had: