Awards Daily has created their 1st annual Predict The Oscars Wrong Contest, and the goal of it plays out just like the name suggests. Instead of trying to pick all 24 categories correctly like most people, you try to pick all 24 categories incorrectly. In essence, you pick the one nominee from each category that you think has zero percent chance of winning. This is more for fun than anything else, and it should be interesting to find out if this is as easy as it sounds. In my opinion, the nominees with the least chance to win are:
BEST PICTURE: An Education
BEST ACTOR: Morgan Freeman, Invictus
BEST ACTRESS: Helen Mirren, The Last Station
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Matt Damon, Invictus
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz, Nine
BEST DIRECTOR: Lee Daniels, Precious
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9BEST DIRECTOR: Lee Daniels, Precious
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger
BEST ANIMATED FILM: The Secret of Kells
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The Milk of Sorrow
BEST ART DIRECTION: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith)BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)
BEST FILM EDITING: District 9 (Julian Clarke)
BEST MAKEUP: Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 (Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas)
BEST SOUND EDITING: Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
BEST SOUND MIXING: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken)
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): French Roast (Fabrice O. Joubert)
BEST SHORT FILM (DOCUMENTARY): The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher)
BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): Instead of Abracadabra (Patrick Eklund, Mathias Fjellström)
