Dan Recaps Dan’s Predictions
Last week as the headline for my Oscar Predictions in The Couch Potato Report I wrote:
“He (Dan) seems a bit confident, even though everyone else is saying it is too close to call!”
As it turned out it wasn’t too close to call as, with one slight exception, I managed to get 5 out of my 6 predictions correct.
This is what I predicted in the six major categories:
BEST ACTOR – Jamie Foxx – RAY
BEST ACTRESS – Hilary Swank, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Morgan Freeman, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Virginia Madsen, SIDEWAYS
BEST PICTURE – MILLION DOLLAR BABY
And
BEST DIRECTOR – Clint Eastwood, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
The category I got wrong was BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS.
No excuses, but if I had only paid attention to what I wrote, I would have been a perfect six for six for the second year in a row.
What I wrote was:
“…as I said earlier regarding the BEST ACTOR category, biographies of remarkable, real-life individuals are heavily represented among Oscar winners.
Since Katharine Hepburn won more Academy Awards than any other actor it would seem to make sense that a victory would be in the cards for Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of Hepburn in THE AVIATOR…”
I also wrote:
“…I usually get this category wrong.”
Yet I still went with Virginia Madsen for SIDEWAYS.
Had I been paying attention to myself, I would have predicted a victory for Cate Blanchett in THE AVIATOR.
But I don’t always listen to myself.
Now had you listened to me, you would have had five out of six as well.
Congratulations to us both!
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