Academy Awards Pick 'Em

The Board 8 Academy Awards Pick 'Em is a yearly contest held before the Academy Awards. The contest in run by Menji. Any user can sign up and pick who they believe to be the winners of every Academy Award.

2009 Academy Awards Pick 'Em Results (March 7, 2010)
Here are the final rankings by points (total pts) (correct picks)

1. Ngamer64 (41 pts) (17)

2. TheOcelot (41 pts) (16)

3. As I Desire (40 pts) (16)

4. XerckXonSkyes (38 pts) (16)

5. linkhatesganon (38 pts) (16)

6. supdawg (38 pts) (15)

7. DoctorBlind (36 pts) (15)

8. LOLContests (35 pts) (14)

9. SephirothG (35 pts) (14)

10. ChidorNoJutsu (35 pts) (14)

11. kernafigjam (34 pts) (14)

12. Menji (33 pts) (13)

13. VeryInsane (32 pts) (14)

14. TimJab (31 pts) (12)

15. MonkClive0 (30 pts) (12)

16. BakusaiTenketsu (30 pts) (12)

17. Icon (29 pts) (13)

18. heilgunslinger (29 pts) (11)

19. BesaidGuy (29 pts) (11)

20. ddr dancer (28 pts) (12)

21. tazzyboyishere (28 pts) (11)

22. Cokes (27 pts) (11)

23. RappinHobo9292 (27 pts) (11)

24. Naomi_Diamond (26 pts) (10)

25. True Fanatic (26 pts) (10)

26. voltch (26 pts) (10)

27. maplejet (26 pts) (10)

28. jake3685 (25 pts) (10)

29. The_Ps2_Devil (23 pts) (9)

30. EatHonkerBurger (22 pts) (9)

31. bryans7 (22 pts) (9)

32. SpeedYoshi (21 pts) (8)

33. trentpac (13 pts) (5)

34. ihatethisCPU (6 pts) (3)

NGamer64 chose the most correct with 17 of 24

TheOcelot chose the most correct in the 3pt category with 9 of 11

NGamer64, As I Desire, and linkhatesganon chose the most correct in the 2pt category with 8 of 10

Icon and VeryInsane chose the most correct in the 1pt category with 2 of 3

Cokes guessed the length spot-on.

Two people chose Best Documentary as the tiebreaker

Three people chose The Hurt Locker to win the most awards

No one chose:

-The Hurt Locker to win both sound categories

-All three of the short winners

-The Foreign Language winner

Scoring
Three points are awarded for a correct pick in the eleven major categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film and Best Foreign Film.

Two points are awarded for a correct pick in the ten technical categories: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.

One point is awarded for a correct pick in the three short categories: Best Animated Short Film, Best Live Action Short, and Best Documentary Short Subject.

Tiebreakers are broken if two or more users have the same score. The first tiebreaker is to whoever has the most correct picks. If still tied. Ties will be broken based off the answers to these three questions.

1) How long will the Oscars run?

2) What film will win the most Oscars?

3) Who will give the shortest acceptance speech?