Despite an Academy Awards full of relatively few surprises (though, Melissa Etheridge? Melissa Etheridge!?!?), this year’s Cyan Oscar Pool contestants were all over the map.

At the top of the heap was, well, me. I submitted an entry to test out the system before linking it, and my own guesses were closer to right than any of you suckers. And while that probably means I’m justified in running a movie company, it also violates what the fine print would say about no employee entries, if this competition had fine print.

So, tossing me out of the race, and knocking off just a couple more right answers, we get our first eligible winner, “Dahlia Thompso”, which I think actually may be Dahlia Thompson typing too fast to include the trailing letter n. If so, Mrs. T, please weigh in to claim your prize.

And then, at the other end of the spectrum, is our fabled ‘booby prize’, is a tie between Kelly Jeide and Christine, who, wisely, went last-nameless. If either Kelly or Christine care to own up, there are DVD prize packs headed their ways as well; heaven knows they need some good movies.

[For these three ladies, and for anyone else feeling the need to weigh in on Oscars, self-aggrandizement, etc., email is newman [at] cyanpictures.com]