Now, for me this is a lot more exciting than the end results. As has been noted by most people at the actual post, the votes for the simulated oscars came out pretty much as you'd expect the real voting to turn out and some recent predictions on The Guardian come out pretty similarly for BP and BD. So yes, so far so depressing. It seems The Social Network is pretty likely to win and, for me, that's like Avatar winning last year (and in case you haven't got the message, I find this prospect extremely irritating).
But who were the main rivals (for LJ voters at least). Well sadly only one person voted for Winter's Bone in their top spot (and I must admit that it wasn't me) so they got ruled out very quickly indeed. Instead the most popular movies, asides from Social Network (with 16 votes), were:
Inception - with 11 votes Black Swan - with 9 votes and The King's Speech - also with 9 votes

The other scores on the first round of voting were:
True Grit - 3 votes
Toy Story 3 - 2 votes
The Fighter - 1 vote
Winter's Bone - 1 vote
127 Hours - 0 votes
The Kids Are All Right (It should be "Alright" dammit!) - 0 votes
So considering that Social Network starts massively ahead of all the other entries, it's quite remarkable how close the final vote was. Even more peculiar is which movie was vying with The Social Network for the top position....
( Click here to find out which movie was vying with TSN for the top spot!... )
Click here to see the full Best Picture vote breakdown of the Simulated Oscars on LJ.
But who were the main rivals (for LJ voters at least). Well sadly only one person voted for Winter's Bone in their top spot (and I must admit that it wasn't me) so they got ruled out very quickly indeed. Instead the most popular movies, asides from Social Network (with 16 votes), were:
Inception - with 11 votes Black Swan - with 9 votes and The King's Speech - also with 9 votes



The other scores on the first round of voting were:
True Grit - 3 votes
Toy Story 3 - 2 votes
The Fighter - 1 vote
Winter's Bone - 1 vote
127 Hours - 0 votes
The Kids Are All Right (It should be "Alright" dammit!) - 0 votes
So considering that Social Network starts massively ahead of all the other entries, it's quite remarkable how close the final vote was. Even more peculiar is which movie was vying with The Social Network for the top position....
( Click here to find out which movie was vying with TSN for the top spot!... )
Click here to see the full Best Picture vote breakdown of the Simulated Oscars on LJ.