{"id":597,"date":"2004-03-01T09:58:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T09:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/03\/oscar_winners\/"},"modified":"2004-03-01T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T09:58:52","slug":"oscar_winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/oscar_winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last night the Lord of the Rings swept the boards. Let’s see how I did from my predictions<\/a>:
\nBest Film – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – CORRECT
\nBest Actor – Sean Penn, Mystic River – CORRECT
\nBest Actress – Charlize Theron, Monster – CORRECT
\nBest Director – Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nActor in a Supporting Role – Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams – WRONG (Tim Robbins)
\nActress in a Supporting Role – Ren\ufffde Zellwegger, Cold Mountain – CORRECT
\nAnimated Feature – Finding Nemo – CORRECT
\nArt Direction – Master and Commander – WRONG (LotR)
\nCinematography – Girl With A Pearl Earring – WRONG (Master and Commander)
\nCostume Design – Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nFilm Editing – Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nMakeup – Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nMusic – Cold Mountain – WRONG (LotR)
\nMusic (Song) – Cold Mountain – WRONG (LotR)
\nSound Editing – Master and Commander – CORRECT
\nSound Mixing – Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nVisual Effects – Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nWriting (Adapted Screenplay) – Lord of the Rings – CORRECT
\nWriting (Original Screenplay) – Lost in Translation – CORRECT
\nSo out of the 18 categories I went for, I got 13 correct. Not too bad. I suppose I should have put my money where my mouth was and put a pound on each category.
\nInterestingly, of the five I got wrong, I deprived Lord of the Rings of three of them.
\nI didn’t attempt to predict foreign language films (the worst category for Academy Awards because invariably the best film doesn’t even get a nomination), documentaries (Touching the Void will be eligible next year I guess), or best short films (no outlets for anyone to see them outside the festival circuit).
\nNot a bad state of affairs, and I’m so glad that Peter Jackson’s been so thoroughly rewarded for what will surely be one of the most enduring film series in years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So last night the Lord of the Rings swept the boards. Let’s see how I did from my predictions: Best Film – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – CORRECT Best Actor – Sean Penn, Mystic River – CORRECT Best Actress – Charlize Theron, Monster – CORRECT Best Director – Peter Jackson, Lord […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}