Simulated Oscars - Vote Breakdown Has Arrived!

[philosoraptor42]

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....



So in the end The Social Network only beat The King's Speech by 2 votes. (27 votes against 25 votes). If you want to see how this happened, you are going to need to click on the image above or the big link below. I personally think that this is fascinating and a lot more interesting than the final result. But then, that's just me...

Some other interesting discoveries:

Second place for best director?
Darren Aronosky (of course)!


The closest vote was apparently "Best Supporting Actress" with Hailee Steinfeld only beating both Melissa Leo and Helena Bonham Carter by a single vote:

                                             

The top three choices for movies that "Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture" were:

1. Blue Valentine  2.How To Train Your Dragon  3. Shutter Island

(It seems that not many other people picked "Scott Pilgrim VS The World" like I did.)


Click here to see the full Best Picture vote breakdown of the Simulated Oscars on LJ.