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The winners of the 88th Academy Awards were announced on Sunday 28 February and, after another competitive awards season, Leonardo DiCaprio finally walked away with an Oscar, winning Best Actor, one of three awards in total for The Revenant. Mad Max: Fury Road collected the night’s heaviest Oscar haul, winning six technical awards, while journalism drama Spotlight was named Best Picture.
In January, Digital Cinema Media (DCM) launched its 2016 Fantasy Film League Oscars edition, pitting contenders against each other and testing the knowledge and prowess of film fans in media land by asking people to predict who they thought would win at the Oscars, and the results are now in!
Over 530 film buffs across the industry entered, almost double the number from last year, and there is one person who scored a perfect 10 out of 10…
We’re excited to announce that Patrick Morley, Executive at The Story Lab is this year’s very worthy winner! Patrick not only walks away with the DCM Fantasy Film League title, but also a red carpet experience.
The top five best represented media agencies were MediaCom, Starcom Mediavest Group, OMD, MEC and MGOMD, with MGOMD amassing the best average score of six out of 10.
The top 17 list, which is made up of a range of media agencies and industry bodies and consists of entrants that marked an impressive 9 or above, looks like this:
- 1. Patrick Morley, The Story Lab
- 2. Ali Reid, Target Media
- 3. Ania Wojnowska, the7stars
- 4. Chris Mitchell, OMD
- 5. Chris Morris, Carat
- 6. Chrisopther Dennis, Carat
- 7. Dan Williams, MGOMD
- 8. Emma Jeffers, Total Media
- 9. George Pilsworth, PHD
- 10. George Tsang, ZentihOptimedia
- 11. Kaneda Pen, OMD
- 12. Mark Hanna, Orion
- 13. Mark Webster, Millward Brown
- 14. Paul Willett, Feref
- 15. Philippa Wiskin, the7stars
- 16. Phillip Dyte, iProspect
- 17. Sam Hindson, PHD