I won my Oscar Pool!

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]

It was a boring Oscars and a subsued Snarknado (with Vicki Lopez unable to make it, and Becky going to bed early because of an early hospital rotation tomorrow), but the 12th annual Oscar Pool had an unprecendented* ending: I won!

ETERNAL GLORY, BABY!!! 🙂

*I totally forgot that I tied for the win in 2014. Still, it’s “unprecedented” that I was the sole winner…

It all started with an upset for Best Supporting Actor.

As I explained in the Snarknado live-chat: “My thinking on the Rylance pick was, I had to pick an upset in one of the supporting acting categories, and I figured most people who wanted to do that would do it in the supporting actress category, rather than supporting actor, out of sentimental loyalty to [supporting actor favorite Sylvester] Stallone.”

Once Ryland won, vaulting me into first place and a substantial edge of 4 points (which became 5 with another mild upset, “Stutterer” for Best Live Action Short), it quickly became apparent that I had a good shot at winning the pool. I had picked the favorites for all the major awards after Rylance’s win, so it was going to take an upset to dislodge me from first place.

As it turned out, there was an upset – for Best Picture – but because the surprise winner was “Spotlight,” rather than “The Big Short,” I won anyway.

Woohoo!

As for the Best Picture upset? A few contestants picked it, but they were too far behind the pack to affect the outcome – finishing 20th, 22nd, 24th and 31st.

UPDATE/CORRECTION: