Our own Oscar winner
Last week’s entertainment headlines in Spain were dominated by the success of Javier Bardem, in becoming the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar. His winning the Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role was no great surprise, as he had been hotly-tipped and the win came after a succession of other prestigious awards had gone his way.
At European Vibe, we ran our own competition in our February issue to predict the winners of five Oscar categories: Best Male Actor, Best Male Supporting Actor, Best Female Actor, Best Female Supporting Actor and Best Film. The vast majority of entrants correctly predicted Bardem’s success in his category, whereas the big ‘coupon-busters’ were in the two female categories.
It was a tough competition; not a single person managed to get five out of five right and there were even a couple of people who got no correct answers. The majority got one or two correct answers and there were lots of people tied on three winners each. However, just when we thought we would need to put all of those with three correct answers into a hat, we realised there was one stand-alone winner with four predictions come true.
Curran Reid had entered the competition early in the month, choosing not to wait and study the odds in the final days like most others. His correct predictions were: Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard and No Country for Old Men. The only one that held him back from a clean sweep was Ruby Dee, who lost out in the Best Supporting Female category to Tilda Swinton. Still, he bagged himself the five tickets to Yelmo Cines Ideal; not an Oscar, granted, but more useful than a statuette.
Check out this month’s European Vibe Magazine for another film competition, and also a competition to win two flights to Ireland and back!