This year's Oscar ceremony had very few surprises except at the very end, when for the very first time, a film directed by a Black man
about black people was named Best Picture of the year, when
12 Years A Slave beat out
Gravity for the night's top honor. Interestingly, even though
Gravity and
American Hustle went in to the night with
10 nominations each (and
12 Years A Slave with 9),
Gravity romped home with 7 Oscars (Director, Editing, Sound Effects, Sound Mixing, Score, Cinematography and Visual Effects) while
American Hustle was shut out! That being said,
12 Years A Slave only won two other Oscars besides Best Picture,
Lupita Nyong'o won Best Supporting Actress and
John Ridley won for Best Adapted Screenplay. Both became examples of that rare phenomenon, a Black Oscar winner. The first Latino man won for Best Director when
Alfonso Cuarón won the Best Director Oscar, as expected, for
Gravity.
So, how did I do in
my predictions this year? In
the Top 8 categories, I got 6 of 8 correct, only missing Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor, and really in both those characters the person that I wanted to win, did so, but they were not who I thought was going to win. This is better than last year,
when I only correctly predicted 5 of 8 correctly, but no where near my high of 2008 (8/8) or 2012 (7/8).
In the Top 24 categories last year I had a dismal 15 of 24, this year I was at
18 of 24 of the winners list. Here's looking to next year!
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