Bowling For Oscars

Jeff Bayer was on "Don't Hassle Us We're Local" on Friday.  Here is his confidence pool for the Oscars.  Send us your confidence list to QCHassle@gmail.com to win QC Hassle gear and a $25 gift card to Texas Roadhouse.

Oscar Bowling site

Are you sick of those ordinary Oscar office pools? Tired of only guessing the top 6 or 8 categories for the Academy Awards? Let your inner-movie geek shine with Bowl the Perfect Oscar Score (aka Oscar Bowling). Try to nail 300 points on the 2019 Academy Awards.

This is a confidence list.

There are 24 categories.

How to play

Pick your winners in all 24 categories. Then, give each winner a confidence score. Your most confident pick gets 24 points, second most confident gets 23 points, third most confident gets 22 points, and eventually your least confident pick gets 1 point.

This is perfect for Oscar parties, because the lead keeps changing. The winner is the one with the most points at the end. A perfect score is 300. If there is a tie (there never is a tie), then the winner is the one with the most points in these three categories combined (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress).

You’ll eventually be able to say things like … “Once, in 2024, I got a 297 Oscar score.” Or, “I know a guy who once hit 300 back in 2015.” Yeah, you’ll be saying these things. Trust me.

Best Picture

• “BlacKkKlansman”
• “Black Panther”
• “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• “The Favourite”
• “Green Book”
• “Roma”
• “A Star Is Born”
• “Vice”

Best Supporting Actor

• Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”
• Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman”
• Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born”
• Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
• Sam Rockwell, “Vice”

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams, “Vice”
• Marina de Tavira, “Roma”
• Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
• Emma Stone, “The Favourite”
• Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”

Best Film Editing

• “BlacKkKlansman”
• “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• “The Favourite”
• “Green Book”
• “Vice”

Best Costume Design

• “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
• “Black Panther”
• “The Favourite”
• “Mary Poppins Returns”
• “Mary Queen of Scots”

Best Original Score

• “Black Panther”
• “BlacKkKlansman”
• “If Beale Street Could Talk”
• “Isle of Dogs”
• “Mary Poppins Returns”

Best Animated Short

• “Animal Behavior”
• “Bao”
• “Late Afternoon”
• “One Small Step”
• “Weekends”

Best Live-Action Short

• “Detainment”
• “Fauve”
• “Marguerite”
• “Mother”
• “Skin”

Best Sound Editing

• “Black Panther”
• “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• “First Man”
• “A Quiet Place”
• “Roma”

Best Sound Mixing

• “Black Panther”
• “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• “First Man”
• “Roma”
• “A Star Is Born”

Best Director

• Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
• Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman”
• Adam McKay, “Vice”
• Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War”
• Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Favourite”

Best Actor

• Christian Bale, “Vice”
• Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
• Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate”
• Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”

Best Actress

• Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”
• Glenn Close, “The Wife”
• Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
• Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”
• Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

Best Adapted Screenplay

• “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
• “BlacKkKlansman”
• “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
• “If Beale Street Could Talk”
• “A Star Is Born”

Best Original Screenplay

• “The Favourite”
• “First Reformed”
• “Green Book”
• “Roma”
• “Vice”

Best Animated Feature

• “Incredibles 2”
• “Isle of Dogs”
• “Mirai”
• “Ralph Breaks the Internet”
• “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”

Best Cinematography

• “Cold War”
• “The Favourite”
• “Never Look Away”
• “Roma”
• “A Star is Born”

Best Documentary Feature

• “Free Solo”
• “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
• “Minding the Gap”
• “Of Fathers and Sons”
• “RBG”

Best Documentary Short

• “Black Sheep”
• “End Game”
• “Lifeboat”
• “A Night at the Garden”
• “Period. End of Sentence”

Best Foreign Language Film

• “Capernaum”
• “Cold War”
• “Never Look Away”
• “Roma”
• “Shoplifters”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• “Border”
• “Mary Queen of Scots”
• “Vice”

Best Original Song

• “All the Stars” from “Black Panther”
• “I’ll Fight” from “RBG”
• “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
• “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”
• “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”

Best Production Design

• “Black Panther”
• “The Favourite”
• “First Man”
• “Mary Poppins Returns”
• “Roma”

Best Visual Effects

• “Avengers: Infinity War”
• “Christopher Robin”
• “First Man”
• “Ready Player One”
• “Solo: A Star Wars Story”