HENLE —In a bout of panic, Sophomore Kevin Peters (COL ’17) spent all Saturday night on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) cramming for his Sunday evening Oscar viewing party.

“I had two papers and a midterm this week,” said Peters, “so I had to put off all my studying until last night.”

Peters spent the night on IMDB reading the plots of every Best Picture nominee, researching each director’s previous films, and memorizing trivia about the presenters.

“I think it was my flashcards that really made the difference. I color coded them by category of nomination, then put them in alphabetical order – first by director, then by title.”
Peters told the Heckler that his friends were “blown away” by his Oscar knowledge.

“I was exhausted from my hours of studying, but I still managed to slip in my knowledge of Wes Anderson’s last three Oscar nominees and quote the final line of The Theory of Everything. All in all, I would call the night a success.”

Peters still admitted that there were a few times he was less than confident about his casual commentary.

“The only time I slipped up was when someone brought up last year’s nominees. No one even told me they were going to be fair game, otherwise I definitely would have spent more time on that unit.”

Attendees of the viewing party claimed not to be impressed by the sudden spike in Peters’s Oscar knowledge.

“He slept through most of the party, just waking up every fifteen minutes to tell us how many minutes long the film was or who wrote the screenplay.”

Peters’s roommate, who spent the month leading up to the Oscars taking meticulous notes on each film and reviewing a little each day before the show, expressed his exasperation in regards to Peters’s study methods.

“I told him that this was not something he could cram for. It’s not like a theology test or something.”

At press time, Peters was insisting that he knew [whatever movie] would win.