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Why doesn't the L.A. Times Buzzmeter poll ask for predictions in all categories so everyone can see how well the experts did at the end of the day? Why hasn't MCN's David Poland published the right-wrong calls of all final Gurus of Gold poll so we can all see at a glance who was better at reading the race than the others?
For what it's worth, I got five wrong last night, including an abstention. And I fully admit I'm not too good at predicting because I can't divorce myself from my personal preferences, no matter what the tea leaves say. Anyway, here's the proof. Missing five isn't too bad. If you missed eight or nine I think it's fair to call your industry pulse-reading abilities into question. If you got ten or more wrong, you need to take a long walk and then stop by a local tavern.
The Gurus of Gold winners with the fewest wrong calls were The Envelope's Pete Hammond and Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger, with four wrongos each.
Former L.A. Daily News critic Glenn Whipp , In Contention's Kris Tapley and USA Today's Suzie Woz got five wrong. Several Gurus got six and seven wrong. Awards Daily's Sasha Stone and USA Today's Scott Bowles both missed eight. And the bottom three with nine wrong apiece were Poland, Toronto Star critic Pete Howell and N.Y. Post critic Lou Lumenick.
The Buzzmeter only ran full results from all 24 categories from Tom O'Neil, Hammond and Scott Feinberg. O'Neil missed three (the best score of anyone), Hammond missed four and Feinberg got six wrong, for a total of 18.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM
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RMBurnett
says ...
Folks,
Not that this means anything at all...but last night I won the Oscar Pool at the party was at.
I missed four: Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Animated Short and Best Sound Editing.
Posted by RMBurnett
at February 23, 2009 11:16 AM
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Nick Rogers
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Missed six, won the party pool. My errors were: Actor (picked Rourke), Documentary Short (picked "The Witness"), Foreign Language Film (picked "Waltz with Bashir"), Original Song (went with the heart on "Down to Earth"), Sound Editing and Sound Mixing (picked "WALL-E" for both).
Posted by Nick Rogers
at February 23, 2009 11:18 AM
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Breedlove
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I feel mainly relief that Oscar season is over. My interest in the show and the whole process has gone down over the past 5-10 years for whatever reason...I really like watching the show but the months of analysis gets old. Very much looking forward to talking about other things...I find that I enjoy the Feb-March-April movie season more than I used to...it's considered a dead zone but there are usually some interesting nuggets hidden in there. Frankly I think more good stuff comes out Feb-April than June-August these days.
Posted by Breedlove
at February 23, 2009 11:19 AM
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Jeremy Fassler
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I got 18/24, my best in a couple of years. The ones I got wrong were documentary and animated short (I went with The Witness and Presto), Actor (Rourke) Sup. Actress (I went with my gut on Marion Cotillard last year over Julie Christie, so I figured going with Viola Davis would pay off--it didn't, but she was still the best), best sound mixing, and foreign film.
Posted by Jeremy Fassler
at February 23, 2009 11:24 AM
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actionman
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I got 21 out of 24
Posted by actionman
at February 23, 2009 11:52 AM