23RD ANNUAL (2024) Champion: Alex Kazhinsky Lincolnwood, IL, USA
22ND ANNUAL (2023) Champion: Barton Randall Los Angeles, California, USA
21ST ANNUAL (2022) Champion: Sebastien Bertrand Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
20TH ANNUAL (2021) Champion: Kyle Wilson Brooklyn, NY, USA
19TH ANNUAL (2020) Champion: Megan Miller Pasadena, CA, USA
18TH ANNUAL (2019) Champion: Kevin Reed Murrayville, IL, USA
17TH ANNUAL (2018) Champion: Leandro Medina Buenos Aires, Argentina
16TH ANNUAL (2017) Champion: Ralph Rogers Winnfield, LA, USA
15TH ANNUAL (2016) Champion: James K. Chambliss Destin, FL, USA
14TH ANNUAL (2015) Champion: Drew Winser Concord, MA, USA
13TH ANNUAL (2014) Champion: Rob Eddy Ontario, Canada
12TH ANNUAL (2013) Champion: Rodney Worsham Winfield, Kansas, USA
11TH ANNUAL (2012) Champion: Reed Hilton-Eddy Ontario, Canada
10TH ANNUAL (2011) Champion: Andy Saur Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
9TH ANNUAL (2010) Champion: Jenefer Brice Calamvale, Queensland, Australia
8TH ANNUAL (2009) Champion: Peter Booker Lansing, Kansas, USA
7TH ANNUAL (2008) Champion: Andrew Smith Loveland, Colorado, USA
6TH ANNUAL (2007) Champion: Jason Flinkstrom Ashby, Massachusetts, USA
5TH ANNUAL (2006) Champion: Gloria Calderon San Jose, Costa Rica
4TH ANNUAL (2005) Champion: Jenny Hottinger Wilmington, Ohio, USA
3RD ANNUAL (2004) Champion: Christopher Calla Yardville, New Jersey, USA
2ND ANNUAL (2003) Champion: Neil P. Linden Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
1ST ANNUAL (2002) Champion: Jim Syta Blasdell, New York, USA
RULES & GUIDELINES
The most unique Academy Awards predicting contest on the web!
There have
been several Academy Awards predicting contests on the web,
from the Academy's own official predicting contest, to several
run by several different film related websites. Most of these
simply involve you predicting the winner in each category.
Oscarworld.net, however, offers a much different Academy
Awards predicting contest. Much more strategy is involved in
predicting the winners, as your "point placement" will need to
consider what other participants may be entering ... but it
promises to be one of the most unique and fun Oscar Predicting
Contests you're likely to play!
There are no cash or physical prizes for this contest, but admission is free, and if you win, your name is enshrined on this page! The contest is open to all those who happen to surf by, all over the world. If you have a computer or phone and can get to this site, you're welcome to play!
The contest begins each year as soon as the nominees are announced for that year's Oscars.
Also adding to the uniqueness of the Open contest is that it's the only Oscar contest where you can track the results live
online during the show, with the results constantly updated after each award is presented, so you can see where you and
others rank the whole night!
It's also the only contest that is a multimedia experience as well ... with trailers for the nominated movies, film clips, interviews with the nominated
actors, samples of the nominated musical scores and songs, short films, and more!
You can also host your own Academy Awards contest on our site for your own office pool, web site membership, or other Oscar predicting group! For just a low one-time setup fee of $19.95, you can have your own branded Oscar contest for your own group, set up your own prizes, and link to from your website, with your own unique URL! A number of people have chosen to host their Academy Awards predicting contest on our OscarWorld system, and you can do the same!
HOW TO PLAY: The way the OscarWorld Open Oscar Contest is handled is through a point allocation system.
Each category has a certain number of points available to it ... each participant must take that total amount of points, and allocate it over the nominees in the category
based on who they think has the best probability of winning. Each participant must be sure to spread all of the points available, and not put more points than are available.
For instance, if Best Picture were worth 100 total points, there are several possibilities : a person could place 20 points on each of the five nominees if they were
unsure of who might win, or place all 100 on one nominee if they feel very confident. Whichever nominee ends up winning
on Oscar night is how many points the individual is awarded for that category. The person with the most amount of points at the end of Oscar night is the winner.
As a clearer example of how the contest is played, see the following example.
In our contest example, the category is Best Actor, worth 100 points. Humphrey Bogart chooses to place his votes
in the following way:
HUMPHREY'S BALLOT FOR BEST ACTOR Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II Orson Welles in Citizen Kane Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver John Wayne in Stagecoach Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
In this example, Humphrey is not as confident on who might win for Best Actor, so he's spreading the points around.
Katharine Hepburn, on the other hand, feels pretty confident ...
KATHARINE'S BALLOT FOR BEST ACTOR Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II Orson Welles in Citizen Kane Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver John Wayne in Stagecoach Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses
She decides to place all 100 of her points on
Pacino. So if Al Pacino were to actually win come Oscar
Night, Katharine would get all 100 points added to her grand
total, while Humphrey would get 30. If Robert De Niro were
to win, Katharine would get no points for this category,
while Humphrey's safer voting grabs him 40 additional
points. If good old Orson Welles took it, neither one would
get any points. And this works this way for all the various
categories.
A unique tiebreaker question will be asked each year in the event of a tiebreak. In the event of a tiebreak, the individual that answers the tiebreak question
correctly will take victory with the second closest person taking the next place in the event of a tie involving more than two people.
ADDITIONAL CONTEST INFORMATION:
To use the online voting system, the participant must log in with their unique username and password. Once at the account screen,
during the voting time period, all Oscar categories will be available to click on to place their votes. During the voting
time period, a participant can submit their votes, and change them as many times as they want until the voting deadline.
No votes are considered final until the voting deadline arrives. Therefore, participants can enter their votes
right when the contest starts, and change them as they deem necessary at any time. Each time a participant changes
votes, those votes override any older votes and they are never used again.
Once the voting deadline arrives, all votes as they exist in the system at the time of the deadline arriving are considered
everyone's final votes. The system will not allow any vote changes or new votes once the deadline arrives. After the
voting deadline, when the participant logs in to their account, they will see category links which allow them to view
each category's master ballot to see everyone's votes for that category put together.
On Oscar Night, participants can access a special Live Results page, which can be accessed from their account or directly,
and see live scoring of the contest results while the Oscars take place.
GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPANTS:
There is a limit to two participants per single address.
Additional Guidelines:
1. All participants must have an e-mail address where they can be reached at any time. This e-mail will be used
to send important and informational e-mails about the contest as it progresses, as well as being used by the administrator
to contact participants on an individual basis if needed for issues related to the contest. This e-mail address is not sold
or used for mailing lists or spam, but is simply used to allow the contest administrator to contact contest participants.
2. If a person wishes to participate in the Oscar Contest, they must sign up and create an account in the online voting
system each year they wish to participate (accounts are unique each year and do not carry over). During the signup,
participants enter information about themselves, as well as selecting a unique username and password to use to protect
their votes as their login to the system. Participants can change their personal information, including their login and
password, at any time by logging in to the application and accessing the section to update their information. A specific
date is set each year as the sign-up deadline. No persons may sign up for that
contest once that deadline has passed.
3. All participants must have their ballots completely filled out, including answering of the tiebreak question, by the
deadline specified each year. The online voting system is automatically programmed to turn off any new voting or changes
at the specified deadline, and any categories left blank will have votes of zeros entered. Under no circumstances can
there be any new or changed voting once the announced deadline has passed. Individuals who have not fully completed their ballots
when the deadline arrives will automatically have zeroes entered .
4. All participants must be over the age of 18.
5. The contest administrator reserves the right to remove participants from the game at any time who do not comply with the guidelines
of this contest or of the web site.
6. Once the contest deadline has
arrived, all participants who do not have a ballot status of
COMPLETE, meaning they have either not filled in their
ballots, or have only filled in some of the categories, will
have zeroes placed in all categories where they have not
voted. Participants need to make sure they have their
ballots completely filled out by the deadline, including the
tiebreak question.
