Social Media Predictions for the 84th Academy Awards
While you're filling out your Oscar ballots and reading blog predictions for Sunday night's Academy Awards, one site has already put together the list of winners. Sort of.
Flowtown, in partnership with Column Five, compiled this awesome infographic predicting the top Oscar winners for the night using 120,000 messages from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, YouTube and more according to Content Strategist, Kelsey Cox at Column Five.
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Categories covered include Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress with winners denoted by an Oscar.
The Winners
The three hour plus 84th annual Academy Awards telecast provided few surprises:
- Meryl Streep's the Best Actress award (her third) for her role in "Iron Lady."
- "The Artist" and "Hugo" both won five Oscars each.
- Michael Hazanavicius won Best Director for "The Artist."
- Jean Dujardin won Best Actor for "The Artist."
- "The Artist" won Best Picture. The first silent film to win the award since the 1920's.
Below is Moviefone's full list of the 84th Academy Award Winners.
Best Picture: "The Artist"
Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, "The Descendants"
Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson, "Hugo"
Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schavo, "Hugo"
Best Costume Design: Mark Bridges, "The Artist"
Best Makeup: Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland, "The Iron Lady"
Best Foreign Language Film: "A Separation"
Best Editing: Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
Best Sound Editing: Phillip Stockton and Eugene Gearty, "Hugo"
Best Sound Mixing: Tom Fleischman and John Midgley, "Hugo"
Best Documentary: "Undefeated"
Best Animated Feature: "Rango"
Best Visual Effects: "Hugo"
Best Original Score: Ludovic Bource, "The Artist"
Best Original Song: Bret McKenzie, "Man or Muppet"
Best Live Action Short: "The Shore"
Best Documentary Short: "Saving Face"
Best Animated Short: "The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore"
Official Movie Trailers
Below are the official movie trailers for the big winners at the 84th Academy Awards:
Slideshow: Highlights from the 84th annual Academy Awards
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COMMENTARY: Looks like the social media movie fans got most of their Academy Award predictions wrong. The only correct winning predictions were "The Artist" for Best Picture and Meryl Streep for Best Actress. The members of the Academy of Motion Pictures who actually voted for Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, and Best Supporting Actor obviously had a mix of opinions.
I did predict that "Hugo" would win five Oscars. But, "The Artist" was a total surprise to me even though the social networks predicted it would win Best Picture. I didn't see the movie, so I can't judge its merits, but the members of the Academy must've thought very highly of the film. The official movie trailer was very entertaining. The fact that it was a silent film apparently did not play any bearing on their voting decision.
I was very disappointed in the performance of Academy Awards host Billy Crystal. He wasn't funny. His jokes missed the mark. He was quite boring if you ask me. He was not "marvelous." I did love the performance by Cirque du Soleil very much. Christopher Plummer, at 82 years of age, finally won an Oscar!! Just love his body of work and surprised he had not won an Oscar before.
When they ran the pictures and videos of filmmakers, editors, music composers, entertainers, actors and actresses who past away last year, they included Steve Jobs. Why? The studios and networks never trusted him, and I doubt they trust new Apple CEO Tim Cook much either. They think that Apple will try to do what it did to music.
Overall, 84th Academy Awards lacked any excitement so I give it a C+.
Courtesy of an article dated February 24, 2012 appearing in BusinessInsider, an article dated February 26, 2012 appearing in Moviefone.com, Flowtown and YouTube
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