Oscar Cohost James Franco Dreams of Sawing Off His Other Arm

The big story of Oscar night was the strikeout by cohost Anne Hathaway. Her comedic delivery so painful that her cohost James Franco looked like he would have sawed off his other arm if the Oscar show had run any longer. I would rather have watched 127 Hours. And the Oscars inexplicably left Whoopi Goldberg out of the memorial tribute.

Most of my predictions were wrong. You can get the rest of the Oscar winners at the official website.

Category	Prediction	Winner	Remarks
Best Actor	Colin Firth The King's Speech	Colin Firth The King's Speech	No suprise, gave his acceptance speech without stuttering.
Best Actress	Jennifer Lawrence Winter's Bone	Natalie Portman Black Swan	Black Swan had to win one major Oscar.
Best Supporting Actor	Christian Bale The Fighter	Christian Bale The Fighter	Boxing with Batman.
Best Supporting Actress	Amy Adams The Fighter	Melissa Leo The Fighter	Looks like I picked the wrong fighter.
Best Adapted Screenplay	Aaron Sorkin The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin The Social Network	Best hack award for best hatchet job.
Best Original Screenplay	Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg The Kids Are All Right	David Seidler The King's Speech	Royalty fawning and Winston Churchill bashing trumps dysfunctional lesbians.
Best Feature Documentary	Exit through the Gift Shop	Inside Job	I guess Hollywood didn't want to meet Banksy, again I am not Banksy.
Best Animated Feature	The Illusionist	Toy Story 3	A sequel, really? I think this Oscar is meant as a Toy Story 4 stopper.
Best Director	Darren Aronofsky Black Swan	Tom Hooper The King's Speech	Could be a coronation.
Best Art Direction	-	Robert Stromberg Karen O'Hara Alice in Wonderland	See below.
Best Cinematography	-	Wally Pfister Inception	See below.
Best Picture	The Social Network	The King's Speech	Yes, it's a coronation.

The Oscars made a big deal in the intro about films that have won the trifecta of Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Picture. Then three different movies won those awards. I guess they really don't open the envelopes in advance of the presentation.

Still, The King's Speech won four major Oscars, which if not a trifecta is a home run. Inception also hit a home run with four Oscars. The Social Network won three Oscars. The Fighter and Alice in Wonderland won two.

My big prediction was that the Joel and Ethan Coen brothers' movie True Grit wouldn't win any major awards despite ten nominations overall. It not only didn't win any of the major awards, it didn't win any. Shut out.