Each year Jill, official co-daughter of NewMexiKen, conducts an Oscar picks contest. She sends out a spreadsheet to friends and family listing the nominated films/actors/directors/etc. — the 24 awards announced during the broadcast — and we all pick our winners. We also list how many of the nominated features we’ve seen. (There were 36 films this year, I’d seen four — but two of them twice!)
The best prognosticators this year were Emily and Rob getting 20 of the 24 awards correct. Clearly, they cheated.
The best of the film-goers saw 23 of the 36 films.
The poorest showing was by Mark. But Mark is being cut some slack because he spent more than half of 2008 as a Marine Corps helicopter pilot in Iraq.
Every one of us picked Heath Ledger and WALL-E to win and they did. None of us got the foreign language film, Departures.
Thanks Jill. It makes Oscar night a lot more fun.