Now... The Fate of My Crystal Ball...

One week ago when I made my Oscar prediction, I ended it by saying the fate of my crystal ball depends on the accuracy of my prediction. Well, here's the results. Let's see if I should toss out my crystal ball or should I keep it for next year's use.

Best Picture
Predicted : ARGO
Actual Winner : ARGO

Michelle Obama presented this award? Weird weird weird. Maybe they can no longer surprise us with the winner that's why they need to surprise us with the presenter.

Best Director
Predicted : Steven Spielberg - LINCOLN
Actual Winner : Ang Lee - LIFE OF PI

Yes yes yes, it's a difficult movie to make. But do you mean other movies are easy to make?

Best Actor
Predicted : Daniel Day-Lewis - LINCOLN
Actual Winner : Daniel Day-Lewis - LINCOLN

Well-deserved winner.

Best Actress
Predicted : Emmanuelle Riva - AMOUR
Actual Winner : Jennifer Lawrence - SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

Not so well-deserved winner. But you know, they need to give SLP something.

Best Supporting Actor
Predicted : Tommy Lee Jones - LINCOLN
Actual Winner : Christoph Waltz - DJANGO UNCHAINED

What? The first award tonight already a shock? Not that I don't see this coming, just that he's the most recent winner among all 5 and they handed him another one so fast already? Christoph Waltz, 2 times Oscar winner doesn't sound quite right yet.

Best Supporting Actress
Predicted : Anne Hathaway - LES MISERABLES
Actual Winner : Anne Hathaway - LES MISERABLES

Of course she's gonna win. They campaigned so hard for her. But I still insist that she wins for the wrong movie and role. LINCOLN, at this point still empty-handed.

Best Screenplay
Predicted : AMOUR (original) & ARGO (adapted)
Actual Winner : DJANGO UNCHAINED (original), ARGO (adapted)

One win for DJANGO (supporting actor) is not enough? Really? ARGO, how dare you? Over LINCOLN? Sigh, the most unsatisfied results... well, until Best Director is being announce anyway.

Best Animated Feature
Predicted : BRAVE
Actual Winner : BRAVE

Yeah! Just when everyone else had gone the WRECK-IT-RALPH route, I remained optimistic about BRAVE's chance. But seriously, all 5 nominees were great, and any of them winning will be a happy news for me.

Best Foreign Language Film
Predicted : AMOUR
Actual Winner : AMOUR

They even snubbed THE INTOUCHABLES just to clear the road for AMOUR to win. Do you really expect this to be won be any other movies?

Best Cinematography
Predicted : SKYFALL
Actual Winner : LIFE OF PI

Shit! I should have known. 11 nominations can't be going home with just 2 tech awards I predicted.

Best Production Design
Predicted : ANNA KARENINA
Actual Winner : LINCOLN

Best Costume Design
Predicted : LINCOLN
Actual Winner : ANNA KARENINA

I know they are going for different films for Production Design & Costume Design, and I guessed the right movies but unfortunately they are in reverse categories. ANNA KARENINA deserves to win both.

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Predicted : LES MISERABLES
Actual Winner : LES MISERABLES

No movie outside of the 9 Best Picture nominees will win in the tech awards, not even the once Oscar darling (yes, you know, that Middle Earth movie franchise). Unless your name is SKYFALL or ANNA KARENINA.

Best Film Editing
Predicted : ARGO
Actual Winner : ARGO

Really, they can't just let ARGO win a sole Best Picture and let it be a future trivia fun? What's so special about the editing of ARGO anyway?

Best Sound
Predicted : SKYFALL (mixing) & LIFE OF PI (editing)
Actual Winner : LES MISERABLES (mixing) & SKYFALL + ZERO DARK THIRTY (tie for editing)

I regretted my choice soon after I read everywhere online that LES MIZ has the mixing category in its bag with all the fuzz about live singing. And a tie! for sound editing. Since 1968. Wow, a tie in a tech award that many people do not care for? But as I pointed out in my prediction article, I have limited knowledge in these sound categories.

Best Visual Effects
Predicted : LIFE OF PI
Actual Winner : LIFE OF PI

Not because it has the best visual, frankly speaking everyone in that list has great visual. It's only because it's the only movie loved by so many people they give it every tech award it was nominated for.

Best Original Score
Predicted : LIFE OF PI
Actual Winner : LIFE OF PI

LIFE OF PI to be the biggest winner tonight? OMG, I used to like the movie alright but now it's no more than an overrated movie to me.

Best Original Song
Predicted : SKYFALL
Actual Winner : SKYFALL

The law of the universe: whenever Adele's nominated, she wins.

So there it was, my final score = 55% (correct in 11 categories out of the 20 I predicted), so it's a "C" for me.
The fate of my crystal ball? Nah, do you actually believe someone still own a crystal ball at this era?