The Academy Awards 2023 – as decided by a dartboard

Sure, you could go to the odds makers in Vegas or you could use ChatGPT to try and figure out who will win the Academy awards, but why bother when good old randomization will do. So here is our list of who will win the Academy Awards this year according to the dart board and other methods. All randomization methods included in this pick were as follows:

• Computer randomization
• Throwing darts at a dartboard
• Shooting arrows into a target at 30 paces
• Laying the names out in a chicken coop and seeing which names got pecked the most
• Same chicken coop but with poop
• Asking people to pick a random number between 1 and…

Actor in a Leading Role – BILL NIGHY – Living

Actor in a Supporting Role – KE HUY QUAN – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Actress in a Leading Role – ANDREA RISEBOROUGH – To Leslie

Actress in a Supporting Role – STEPHANIE HSU – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Animated Feature Film – THE SEA BEAST – Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger

Cinematography – EMPIRE OF LIGHT – Roger Deakins

Costume Design – MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS – Jenny Beavan

Directing – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Documentary Feature – ALL THAT BREATHES – Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

Editing – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Paul Rogers

Foreign Film – ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Germany

HMU – THE WHALE – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley

Original Score – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Carter Burwell

Original Song – APPLAUSE – from Tell It like a Woman; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Best Picture – THE FABELMANS – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers

Production Design – BABYLON – Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino

Sound – TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

Visual Effects – BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick

Adapted Screenplay – LIVING – Written by Kazuo Ishiguro

Original Screenplay – TRIANGLE OF SADNESS – Written by Ruben Östlund

When the Oscars are over we will post updates to see how radically wrong our random choices were. So come back!

For more information, go to the Academy page directly HERE