I showed you mine, now you show me your…2022 Oscar Ballot Results.

At least I wasn’t shocked at #CODA🤟🏻 winning #BestPicture last night…
@vanityfair what’s my consolation prize?

I may have gotten a C+ on this paper, but I got the Bonus Question right. That pulls my grade up to a B-

I got the big Award of the night right out of the gate! A lot of people had it for “The Power of the Dog” but the voting on all these awards shows are like a tour of “World Poker” and you’re seeing who’s got what without knowing the cards numbers. Some years, you get ‘Face Card’ nominees.

To me that means, their career and work in the film give Him, Her or They higher odds of receiving enough votes from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Voting Guild to get the win. Just like some players, you pay attention to The SAG Awards, The BAFTA Awards, The Critics choice Awards, The Director’s Guild, The Writer’s Guild and all the major category awards that focus on the nominated subject content.

My Brand of Poker…

In the case of “Best Picture” my poker face is on The Producer’s Guild and who they reward it too within their Guild. The category of “Best Picture” awards the Producers of the nominated film. The Money bags. The Large Studio or Small studio of people who put up the Capitol to get the film made. That award this year went to CODA🤟🏻 so it logically made sense to me that even though the Benedict Cumberbatch Movie, I just wanted to type his name. Cumberbatch. I just adore his name. lol any who.

The Movie “The Power of the Dog” won in the other Guilds. This is the Guild of their peers. This is what all my bets were on theoretically. Its the information I use to try to get a film ballot version of a “Full House“. RIP Bob Saget, BTW. Danny Tanner. Man oh Man. so much loss the last couple of years.

Sidetracked Memories in a Full House…

I grew up on watching that show. The best episode is still when Papoli comes from Greece and dances a Greek Dance he taught her with her at Michelle’s school. Then he dies while visiting and Michelle thinks she killed him by asking to do the dance, she hides in the back yard boat and Uncle Jessie comes aboard to make it all better. That was the most intense my TV had gotten at that age. So that one sank in deep into my memories.

Oscar Ballot Strategies….

But I digress, back to my strategy. I take all my cards and from what I observe I they really hard to get a 23/23. A couple of years ago I came close. I had two wrong. Like Madonna sang, Nobody’s Perfect.

I have fun testing my wills and theoretical guessing with this every year! Im a Movie Geek. We have established this. no Surprise. It was quite a year for things I don’t need to elaborate on here. All it did was distract from the nomination categories not being televised this year. In my opinion, not cool at all guys. You can’t put value on any one job in making a film. You work as a Unit. If one person isn’t doing their job, your definitely not getting woken up at 5 am to be told your nominated for an Oscar. Real Talk. The result is, your movie won’t do well and it’s all because you need a vibe and camaraderie in production to go with a great story.

Not I’m more important and need TV coverage.

If that were the case, it would be my fellow screenwriters and myself. The Screenplay is the backbone of a film. Without it. You don’t have a movie to nominate.

A ‘Fair’ Thanks…

I personally Thank Vanity Fair for letting me see how good my odds are on these awards. I use the ballot to test if I have a solid understanding of how the thinking at least goes around them there parts in Hollywood. If only I lived in Vegas! I would have won big on “CODA“🤟🏻! But as is life.

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