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Seven out of ten correct is a glittering triumph!
YOU can't win 'em all - but I nearly did!
A Magnificent Seven of my ten Oscar predictions in Saturday's Birmingham Mail won at last night's 80th Academy Awards.
My actors' clean sweep included Daniel Day-Lewis (best actor), Javier Bardem (supporting actor), Marion Cotillard (best actress) and Tilda Swinton (supporting actress).
Ethan and Joel Coen won best director for No Country For Old Men, and Ratatouille was chosen as best animation.
Diablo Cody triumphed in Los Angeles with best original screenplay for Juno.
As for best film, adapted screenplay and cinematography, I unashamedly plumped for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
When the other films have been long forgotten, even viewers in the next century will be deeply moved by this astonishing story about a French magazine editor fighting back from a catastrophic stroke.
After sensibly avoiding There Will Be Blood, the Academy's short-sighted members were wrong to award No Country for Old Men best film and screenplay after that very suspect ending.
Best cinematography went to There Will be Blood's Robert Elswit, leaving Torquay-born Roger Deakins (nominated both for No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford) empty-handed for the seventh time.
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