How'd I Do? 93rd Academy Awards Nominations Edition

I got 36 out of 43 in the top eight categories. That's 83.7%. Getting 19/20 in the acting categories made up for the fact that I went only 6/8 on Best Picture and 3/5 on Best Adapted Screenplay. I was right about only 8 Best Picture nominees, though.

My overall score was 77/102 (75.5%) After 5 straight years of improving my prediction accuracy, I have fallen back a bit.

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Mank

Minari

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

missed: The Father; Judas and the Black Messiah

predicted: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; One Night in Miami

93rd Academy Awards Nomination Predictions

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mank

Minari

Nomadland

One Night in Miami

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Everything I Saw in the 2nd Half of 2020

The back half of 2020 was a very unusual period of viewing for me, owing of course to the

pandemic. 54 total feature films is low for me, but not too far off the norm. The real difference

was that a lot of those were repeats or revisits. I only watched 18 features films I'd never seen

before. And this was the first 6 month period since probably 1986 that I didn't see any movies

in the theater. I only saw 8 in all of 2020, which was probably my lowest number since maybe

1989 or 1990.

So where did my time go? TV shows! I tracked 161 episodes watched and that doesn't include

anything I watched in late night syndication like Seinfeld, Friends, and The Honeymooners!

Everything I Saw in the First Half of 2020

Viewing habits strong affected by the start of the pandemic obviously. Everything went

into complete 

by mid-March. Therefore I saw a very limited number of movies in the

cinema. The total number of features I saw remained consistent with recent trends in

my viewing, but having basically every night available to watch something meant I spent

a lot of time with streaming services and started what would become nearly two years

of gorging myself on TV series. I began a rewatch of The Wire and also watched a lot of

Friends and Seinfeld through their syndicated runs on post-primetime TV. I didn't keep

track of the syndicated episodes I caught, but most weeknights I watched at least one

Seinfeld and one Friends.

How'd I Do? 92nd Academy Awards nominations edition

I nailed 39/44 (88.6%) in the top eight categories.
I got 17/20 in the acting categories, equal to 3 years ago and 1 better than the last two years.
Overall I got 87/109 (79.8%)

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Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

Parasite

Marriage Story

Little Women

1917

The Irishman

Joker

Ford v. Ferrari

Jojo Rabbit

92nd Academy Awards nomination predictions

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Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

Parasite

Marriage Story

Little Women

1917

The Irishman

Joker

Ford v. Ferrari

Jojo Rabbit

Everything I Saw in the First Half of 2019

Viewing has declined! There are a number of reasons for this. I'm devoting
resources (time and money) to other things that have begun to take priority
over going to the movies.

This was the lowest number of movies watched since I started tracking 7
years ago. 68 feature films watched compared with a previous low of
77 two years ago. I had more repeat viewing than usual, watching 30 features
I'd never seen before and 38 that I had seen.

Features in the cinema was one of my lowest at 18.