The Kidd Makes His Oscar Picks

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24… that’s it. That’s the number of brave souls willing to take The Kidd’s Oscar Challenge. That’s the number of confident individuals who believe they can out-pick The Kidd when it comes to predicting the winners of all 24 Oscar categories. 24… that’s the number of people The Kidd is planning on sending home sad, disappointed, and empty-handed at the end of this contest. I don’t like to lose. I don’t plan on losing, and I hope you’ve brought your best in knocking me off in my first-ever Oscar Challenge. I would say I wish you the best of luck, because you’re going to need it… but I’d just be lying. I wish you the worst of luck, because… well, let’s face it. I don’t really want you to win, because that would mean I didn’t. You know the rules… 24 categories, 24 predictions. Score just one higher than me, and you’re a winner. Anything less, and you get nothing. In addition, we have yet to confirm how many passes for the movies that we are attached to that we will be receiving. In some cases, quantities are limited. So, in such an event, a tiebreaker will be used to determine what winners will receive passes from those small pools of tickets. That tiebreaker will be correct predictions from the top categories to the lesser categories, starting with Best Picture. For example, if we only have one pass for a movie available between two people, and one of them picked “The Hurt Locker” and the other “Avatar,” and “Avatar” came out, that contestant with the correct pick would land the pass. The order of the tiebreaking categories, in the event of a tie, is as follows:

1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor
3. Best Actress
4. Best Supporting Actor
5. Best Supporting Actress
6. Best Director
7. Best Adapted Screenplay
8. Best Original Screenplay
9. Best Animated Feature
10. Best Foreign Language Film
11. Best Cinematography
12. Best Film Editing
13. Best Documentary Feature
14. Best Original Song
15. Best Original Score
16. Best Visual Effects
17. Best Art Direction
18. Best Costume Design
19. Best Makeup
20. Best Sound Mixing
21. Best Sound Editing
22. Best Live Action Short Film
23. Best Animated Short Film
24. Best Documentary Short

With that clear, here are The Kidd’s Oscar picks:

Best Picture

1. The Hurt Locker

Best Actor

1. Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

Best Supporting Actor

1. Christopher Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress

1. Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Supporting Actress

1. Mo’Nique – Precious

Best Director

1. Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Best Documentary Feature

1. The Cove

Best Documentary Short

1. The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Best Animated Feature

1. Up

Best Foreign Language Film

1. The White Ribbon – Germany

Best Original Screenplay

1. Quentin Tarantino – Inglorious Basterds

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner – Up in the Air

Best Cinematography

1. Avatar

Best Art Direction

1. Avatar

Best Animated Short Film

1. A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short Film

1. The New Tenants

Best Visual Effects

1. Avatar

Best Costume Design

1. Coco Before Chanel

Best Film Editing

1. The Hurt Locker

Best Sound Mixing

1. Avatar

Best Sound Editing

1. Avatar

Best Original Score

1. Up

Best Original Song

1. “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart

Best Makeup

1. Star Trek