THE WINNERS: Part II!

The Oscars are over for 2001, but wait! We've got that snazzy DVD Player from Reply Electronics to give away! From 436 entries, we went through each one to narrowed it down to seven! Yes, seven people got 10/12 correct in their guesses. But who was our winner? Read on, MacDuff, read on.

As we know which answers were correct, the following lists what was incorrect for each entry:

Congratulations to R. Sekdorian, winner of our Oscar Pool Contest! Have fun with your new DVD player!

  Introduction
  current story
  best director & best picture
  actor - leading
  actress - leading
  supporting actor rundown
  supporting actress rundown
  six degrees of Oscar; missing in action

NOW senior film writer John Harkness is the author of The Academy Awards Handbook (Pinnacle).

Top 10 reasons to be cheerful about the Oscar nominations

10. The Academy continues to prevent the untrammelled swelling of John Cusack's ego by ignoring him again.
9. Only three films no one's ever heard of have been nominated in the foreign-language-film category, as opposed to the usual five.
8. Debbie Allen has been rehired as choreographer for the Oscar show, offering inspiration to talentless hacks everywhere.
7. Ten nominations for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, none for Smiling Fish And Goat On Fire.
6. Still no third-generation Fonda nominee.
5. Anything that manages to really annoy fans of The Cell can't be all bad.
4. It's the first time ever that three people named Steven (or Stephen) are nominated in one category.
3. Jeff Bridges may receive a long-overdue Oscar. For the worst performance in his category.
2. Nominations for Björk and Bob Dylan mean not one but two possibilities for wackiest acceptance speech in Academy history.
1. They nominated Gladiator. They could have nominated The Patriot.

Sorry!