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Oscar 2009 Roundup

Film

SlumDog MillionaireI wanted to do this earlier in the week, but have been a little too busy up until now.  Basically I just wanted to take a written look at how I did on my predictions, and also make some general comments on the Oscars.

First: the predictions.  You can always look down below and compare with any results page you may see to see exactly which catagories I got right, I’m not going to go through them all.  Overall I got 14 out of the 23 or 24 catagories right, not a great record considering how many I saw, but pretty serviceable, and at least it’s above 50%.  The good news is that I got all eight of the big eight categories right.  Since these are the really important catagories anyway, and the ones that don’t require a bunch of technical knowledge, I take a lot of pride in this.  Especially because in order to get all eight of these right, I took a big risk and it paid off.

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