Well, this year’s Oscars wasn’t quite the seismic shift I – and a lot of others too – were hoping for.

Roma missed out on Best Picture – the largely staid, conservative, white, male, Academy voters just couldn’t bring themselves to give the big gong to a black and white foreign language film made by a Mexican about Mexicans.

Mind you, producer/director.writer/cinematographer/editor Alfonso Cuaron – who is entitled to call himself an auteur – came away with some impressive hardware – three Oscars; for Best Director, Best Cinematographer, and Best Foreign Language Film.

So how did I go with my predictions?
Not as good as in previous years.
But not bad either.

You decide –

Best Picture
Roma
NUP – GREEN BOOK

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron
Roma
YEP

Best Actor
Rami Malek
Bohemian Rhapsody
YEP

Best Actress
Glenn Close
The Wife
NUP – OLIVIA COLMAN, THE FAVOURITE

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali
The Green Book
YEP

Best Supporting Actress
Marina de Tavira
Roma
NUP – REGINA KING, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Best Documentary
Hale County This Morning
NUP – FREE SOLO

Original Screenplay
Green Book
YEP

Adapted Screenplay
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
NUP – BLACKKKLANSMAN

Foreign Language Film
Roma
YEP

Cinematography
Roma
YEP

Film Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody
YEP

Production Design
Black Panther
YEP

Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity Wars
NUP – FIRST MAN

Original Score
If Beale Street Could Talk
NUP – BLACK PANTHER

Original Song
A Star is Born
YEP

Sound Mixing
Bohemian Rhapsody
YEP

Sound Editing
Bohemian Rhapsody
YEP

Costume Design
The Favourite
NUP – BLACK PANTHER

Makeup & Hair
Vice
YEP

Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
YEP

So of the 21 I called, I got 13.
Pretty pathetic if you ask me…