Okay, so my Oscar predictions were less than perfect. I contend that this was a hard year to call. (We’ll just ignore the fact that my dad told me today that he guessed most of them right, but was off on Best Director. After all, he’s been doing this a lot longer than I have.)
I did call Best Picture, Animated Feature, Actor and Actress though, didn’t I? So what if I bombed the other three. 
I was really surprised that they didn’t give the Oscar to Martin Scorsese, especially considering “The Aviator” took nearly every other award it was nominated for. But, as K pointed out, perhaps they were making up for last year and not giving Clint the Best Director award for “Mystic River”. Darn that “Lord of the Rings”.
That’s the problem with trying to call these things. There’s so much more being considered than plain merit. You have to take Hollywood Politics into account and sometimes these little nuances aren’t readily apparent.
That said, in K and I’s grand bet, I got nine predictions correct overall and he got eight. It was very close. Best Picture was the deciding factor on that one. Still, maybe we’ll go to his restaurant anyhow because he was awful disappointed he didn’t win for the second year in a row. And P.F. Chang’s is pretty tasty. 
