This can't be right—can it?

Published in time, this time, as the clock winds down to the 78th Annual Academy Awards. My stabs, in descending order of confidence:

1. BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Brokeback Mountain
2. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
3. BEST DIRECTOR: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
4. BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: King Kong
5. BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
6. BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Crash
7. BEST FILM EDITING: Crash
8. BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: March of the Penguins
9. BEST PICTURE: Brokeback Mountain
10. BEST MAKEUP: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
11. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brokeback Mountain
12. BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Memoirs of a Geisha
13. BEST SOUND EDITING: King Kong
14. BEST SOUND MIXING: King Kong
15. BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
16. BEST ART DIRECTION: Memoirs of a Geisha
17. BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: God Sleeps in Rwanda
18. BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
19. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Memoirs of a Geisha
20. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Tsotsi
21. BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Travelin' Thru," Transamerica
22. BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Matt Dillon, Crash
23. BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: Six Shooter
24. BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: 9

So, I've got Brokeback winning the most with four, followed by King Kong and Crash winning three each. Hmmm ...

UPDATE: I should have known it was a bad sign when I saw this in the Tribune that Sunday morning. Either way, 17 out of 24 was good enough to win the "pools," but hardly anything worth bragging about. More belated post-Oscar reaction above.