Oscar results

So here is a run down of how I did with my Oscar predictions:

Best picture

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

WRONG: 12 Years a Slave

It really did look like it was going Graviy's way... Oh well! I'm sure in years to come Gravity is likely to be the film which is better remembered.

Best director

Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

Alexander Payne - Nebraska

David O. Russell - American Hustle

Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

RIGHT

Best lead actor

Christian Bale - American Hustle

Bruce Dern - Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street

RIGHT

Best lead actress

Amy Adams - American Hustle

Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Judi Dench - Philomena

Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

WRONG: Cate Blanchett

Amy Adams was a bit of a long shot for me.

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role

Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper - American Hustle

Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street

Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

RIGHT

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role

Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine

Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle

Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave

Julia Roberts - August: Osage County

June Squibb – Nebraska

RIGHT

Best animated feature film of the year

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Frozen

The Wind Rises

RIGHT

Achievement in cinematography

The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd

Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki

Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel

Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael

Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins

RIGHT

Achievement in costume design

American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson

The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping

The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin

The Invisible Woman - Michael O’Connor

12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris

WRONG: The Great Gatsby

I guess that I was misguided by the revealing outfits of Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence... 

Achievement in film editing

American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten

Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse

Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa

Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker

RIGHT

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty

The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

RIGHT

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

The Book Thief - John Williams

Gravity - Steven Price

Her - William Butler and Owen Pallett

Philomena - Alexandre Desplat

Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman

RIGHT

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

Happy from Despicable Me 2

Let It Go from Frozen

The Moon Song from “Her

Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

RIGHT

Achievement in production design

American Hustle -  Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler

Gravity - Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard

The Great Gatsby - Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn

Her - Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena

12 Years a Slave - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

RIGHT

Best animated short film

Feral

Get a Horse!

Mr. Hublot

Possessions

Room on the Broom

WRONG: Mr. Hublot

:(

Achievement in sound editing

All Is Lost - Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns

Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney

Gravity - Glenn Freemantle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Brent Burge

Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman

RIGHT

Achievement in sound mixing

Captain Phillips - Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro

Gravity - Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson

Inside Llewyn Davis - Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Lone Survivor - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

RIGHT

Achievement in visual effects

Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds

Iron Man 3 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick

The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier

Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

RIGHT

Best adapted screenplay

Before Midnight - written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

Captain Phillips - screenplay by Billy Ray

Philomena - screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

12 Years a Slave - screenplay by John Ridley

The Wolf of Wall Street - screenplay by Terence Winter

RIGHT

Best original screenplay

American Hustle - Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell

Blue Jasmine - Written by Woody Allen

Dallas Buyers Club - Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack

Her - Written by Spike Jonze

Nebraska - Written by Bob Nelson

WRONG - Her

So, counting these up, I got 15 right out of 20 predictions, or 75%. A pretty good score in my book and much better than last years predictions.

Although I have to say that I'm disappointed that Gravity didn't win best picture, even though it managed to snag most awards during the night.