Oscar Results

The Oscar results all were very much as expected - looking at my predictions for the winners on Saturday, I scored 18/24, which I believe is probably my best performance. Ignoring the 3 short film categories which were always going to be complete guesses, I only missed 3 awards:

Best Actor - Sean Penn beat Mickey Rourke, which is a shame. It's Bill Murray vs Sean Penn all over again. At least this time Penn's performance was genuinely good, but I'm getting a bit tired of the whole "biopic = instant acting Oscars" trend that has emerged over the past decade or so.

Best Foreign Language Film - To be fair, this wasn't much more than a guess either, but apparently the Japanese film Departures beating Waltz With Bashir is seen as somewhat of a surprise.

Best Sound Mixing - Sigh. As I feared, Slumdog Millionaire did indeed pick up a sound Oscar, but at least it didn't win both. Plus, mixing is probably the less ridiculous category for it to win.

Otherwise, it was the expected Slumdog steamroll, picking up 8 awards, with Benjamin Button on 3 and The Dark Knight on 2. I've heard seriously mixed opinions on the supposedly new-style telecast itself, something which I hope to watch at some point this week.

The full list of winners can be seen here.