we were graced with the presence of a production/direction duo of nyc hipsters (stephen and hadleigh) on sunday night when amy and i held our first ever oscars party...it just randomly happened that they were out filming a documentary on the weekend of the oscars and we were lucky to find them at our house during the oscar night magic.
as the kids slowly went to bed one by one upstairs, i printed out the ballots and we fast-forwarded through much of the red-carpet hoopla to more award show hoopla.
our ballots can be seen below. a circle indicates one's preferred winner and a check indicates a prediction of whom the academy will choose. we will compare our award show to that of the academy...
the tick marks at the top of the page indicate the number guessed correctly. the night was tense as we vied for the top predictive position, but it soon became apparent that stephen was pulling away on the strength of his guesses in the shorts and documentarys. i barely pulled from last place to a tie for last with my wife amy (who had only seen 4 of the 9 best picture nominees.)
one caveat before we unveil the winners from our own prestigious academy, 3 of us had seen eight of the nine best picture nominees. amy had seen four. stephen is vowing not to see king's speech on some undefined, undecipherable moral stance. and the winners are...
on the strength of hipster voting, major discrepancies were found. winner of best picture to social network and best director david fincher (also social network.)
i voted for king's speech as best picture and amy voted for toy story (although she cynically predicted that black swan would win the academy's hearts.)
for best actress natalie portman was the unanimous winner in our balloting (although amy abstained not having seen any of the actresses ply their wares.)
and lastly, on the strength of resident highland voters colin firth took home the top male acting prize while the hipsters split for jesse eisenberg and jeff bridges (with a nod to 'the dude'.)
and there you have it. the moment you've been waiting for. do you agree? did the academy get it right. one of the best moments of the night came when trent reznor won an oscar for his score in the social network. it was sad to see the social network flounder so thoroughly. it was a unique and fascinating look at the rise of facebook and its founder that was probably deserving of a few more accolades...that being said, the king's speech was the best movie i saw all year (followed closely by 'how to train a dragon')
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I completely support the decision for King's Speech. I loved everything about the movie, but especially the cinematography and the acting by Colin Firth and crazy lady. I was also excited for Christian Bale, and I thought he was thoroughly deserving, although I have to admit I was secretly rooting for Geoffrey Rush even though I didn't think he'd win. I didn't see Black Swan, so I can't comment on anything there, although the few clips I've seen of Natalie Portman looked like she gave a great performance. Social Network was one of my favorite movies of the year, but to me it didn't compare to King's Speech artistically. I actually thought 127 Hours should have won best score. That's just me.
So which movie didn't you see? Winter's Bone?
libby: i saw winter's bone on streaming netflix. i did not see, 'the kids are all right.' and judging from stephen and hadley's snide comments during the night, i may not have missed much?
i too was rooting for geoffrey rush. but christian was great.
blah blah blah blah blah. did you not even mention that I won?
oh i did. you may not have read the post. i mentioned that you pulled away and we had no chance of catching you. and the photo shows your 14 points.
how's this...STEPHEN WON!!!!
Paul... Hadley is spelled Hadleigh. FYI You will be sad you did that when he is a big time director.
Thanks to Hadleigh and Stephen for sticking with us through the pre-oscar play-with-and-put-kids-to-bed mania... they loved being around yous guys.
And I never thought I'd have so much fun voting for movies I've never seen! Who knew...
I don't care about who won. I only care that "How to train your dragon" lost. Best movie of my year, no doubt.
And, I also care that we weren't there. I know that this was impromptu, and I didn't have time to invite myself this year, but you can bet that I'll be begging for an invitation next year (starting now).
Please, oh please can I come to your Oscar party??!!!
YES!!
you were of course invited. we did hear rumors that you'd decided to stay in SLC for the day and we remember from med school and that those relaxed sundays at home are very important to a young family's sanity...
and we owe you considering we invited ourselves to your super bowl party...
I think the ONLY movie I saw was,"How To Train A Dragon." I wouldn't have seen that but Aaron really wanted me to watch it with him.
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