The Oscars results

The winners are announced, I think. I say I think so - not because the media isn't awash with the details but because the trusty app for the Oscars is a stinking pile of difficult-to-get-any- sense-out-of.

2010 Oscar Predictions vs Actual Results!

Animated Feature Film:

I said: Up

Oscars said: Up

Costume Design:

I said: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Oscars said: The Young Victoria

Film Editing:

I said: District 9

Oscars said: The Hurt Locker

Art Direction:

I said: Sherlock Holmes

Oscars said: Avatar

Best Picture:

I said: District 9

Oscars said: The Hurt :Locker

Actor in a Leading Role:

I said: Jeff Bridges

Oscars said: Jeff Bridges

Music (Original Song):

I said: The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), from “Crazy Heart”

Oscars said: The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), from “Crazy Heart”

Actor in a Supporting Role:

I said: Woody Harrelson

Oscars said: Christoph Waltz

Short Film (Live Action):

I said: The Door

Oscars said: The New Tenants

Music (Original Score):

I said: Sherlock Holmes

Oscars said: Up

Writing (Original Screenplay):

I said: A Serious Man

Oscars said: The Hurt Locker

Actress in a Leading Role:

I said: Carey Mulligan

Oscars said: Sandra Bullock

Visual Effects:

I said: Avatar

Oscars said: Avatar

Cinematography:

I said: Avatar

Oscars said: Avatar

Sound Mixing:

I said: Avatar

Oscars said: The Hurt Locker

Short Film (Animated):

I said: A Matter of Loaf and Death

Oscars said: Logorama

Sound Editing:

I said: Avatar

Oscars said: The Hurt Locker

Documentary (Feature):

I said: The Cove

Oscars said: The Cove

Makeup:

I said: The Young Victoria

Oscars said: Star Trek

Actress in a Supporting Role:

I said: Vera Farmiga - who wasn't even nominated

Oscars said: Mo'Nique

Writing (Adapted Screenplay):

I said: District 9

Oscars said: Prescious

Foreign Language Film:

I said: El Secreto de Sus Ojos - which I thought meant the Secret of Orange Juice.

Oscars said: El Secreto de Sus Ojos

Documentary (Short Subject):

I said: Music

Oscars said: Music

Directing:

I said: Inglourious Basterds

Oscars said: The Hurt Locker

So... this tells me many things.

• The Academy don't know anything about movies, obviously, for how can they be right and I be wrong!
• I really should have seen The Hurt Locker before predicting.
• Finally, I am very accurate when I make random guesses for films I know nothing about and terribly inaccurate when I make an educated guess based on a film I have seen and like.

I got 8 out of 24 correct. So if I had paid £10 per bet I would have needed combined odds of 3-1 in order to get my money back. Rats.