Every year during the Academy Awards I order myself a cheese pizza, pop a bowl of popcorn, plant myself in front of the TV for the three-plus-hour broadcast and yell profusely at anyone who decides it’s a good idea to talk loudly when awards are being presented (not cool).

The Oscars are my Super Bowl. And the 86th Academy Awards this year was one of the best I’ve seen. (And, seeing how the show reached a 10-year high in ratings, I was obviously not the only one who thought so).

It may have been because I had seen every Best Picture nomination with the exception of “Nebraska” and “Philomena.” (I finished “12 Years a Slave” in the nick of time — three hours before the event began.)

It may have been because Ellen DeGeneres was hilarious — dressing up as Glinda the Good; ordering pizza for the crowd, and ending up in a hilarious photo of Brad Pitt scarfing down a slice; and taking the ultimate selfie with huge actors and actresses such as Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Spacey and Lupita Nyong’o, which broke the retweet record, receiving over 1 million retweets in under an hour and literally broke Twitter. Jared Leto was ready to fight to the death to be in that picture (nice try) and I may or may not have made it my Facebook cover photo within minutes of it being posted.

It may have been the fact that “Gravity,” my favorite movie that came out in 2013, won not one, not two, but seven awards — for sound mixing, sound editing, cinematography, film editing, visual effects, original score and directing.

Or, it may have been that all but two of my Oscar predictions were correct. Take a look:

**Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave” (Prediction: “Gravity”)**

“12 Years a Slave” and “Gravity” were the two films vying for the top award, and it was a close race. Going in, I knew that “12 Years a Slave,” a historical drama about a free black man who is captured and illegally sold into slavery, was more than likely going to emerge victorious. But even with this knowledge, I chose to stay true to my love, my favorite 2013 film, sci-fi space thriller “Gravity.”

“Gravity” was perfect — the cinematography, the poetic beauty, Sandra Bullock’s performance. I left the theater with my friends and ended up talking about it until 4 a.m. afterwards.

Granted, “12 Years a Slave” was just as good (almost), so I have no complaints/rants about how “Gravity” was more deserving.

**Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey for “Dallas Buyers Club” (Prediction: Matthew McConaughey)**
Before this year, the only movie I had seen of McConaughey’s was “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” Then 2013 happened — “Mud,” “Dallas Buyers Club” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” all of which were phenomenal.

And despite my heart wishing for Leonardo DiCaprio to finally win an Oscar, McConaughey’s performance of a homophobic cowboy dying of AIDS was the obvious victor.

**Best Actress: Cate Blanchett for “Blue Jasmine” (Prediction: Cate Blanchett)**

Personally, I thought Blue Jasmine was just “eh.” But there’s no denying that Cate Blanchett’s role as the deeply troubled Jasmine wasn’t spectacular.

**Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto for “Dallas Buyers Club” (Prediction: Jared Leto)**

I have beef with Jared Leto. When I was 15, he cancelled his band’s, Thirty Seconds to Mars’, concert, which I had tickets to, the day before the show in order to make a stupid music video.

But despite the personal grudge I’ve been harboring for the last four years, his performance as a transsexual with AIDS in “Dallas Buyers Club” was like nothing I had ever seen. I was blown away.

**Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o for “12 Years a Slave” (Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence for “American Hustle”**

This was another close category. My pick was always for J-Law, my number one woman crush. But when, on the day of the Oscars, I finally got around to seeing “12 Years a Slave,” I saw what everyone had been talking about — Lupita Nyong’o was amazingly heartbreaking.

If my girl J-Law had to lose to anyone, I’m glad it was to Lupita.

**Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón for “Gravity” (Prediction: Alfonso Cuarón)**

“Gravity” was perfect. The end.

**Best Original Screenplay: “Her” (Prediction: “Her”)**

Spike Jonze’s screenplay touched me right in the feels.

When Theodore ruminates, “Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I’m never going to feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I’ve already felt.” Or when Samantha remarks, “The heart’s not like a box that gets filled up, it expands in size the more you love.” It’s just lovely.

**Best Adapted Screenplay: “12 Years a Slave” (Prediction: “12 Years a Slave”)**

Based on the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, “12 Years a Slave” made me bawl like a baby alone in my dorm room. Granted, I cry over movies all the time, but this film’s story of Solomon was devastating.

Exhibit A: when a newly-captured Solomon says “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.” The feels.

**Best Animated Picture: “Frozen” (Prediction: “Frozen”)**

Oh, “Frozen.” Everyone loves you. People say you’re “the best Disney movie since ‘The Lion King.’” Personally, I don’t see it. But it was a no-brainer that you would win. So congrats, I guess.

So now, my fellow film enthusiasts, do not despair that the Academy Awards are over until next year. Now it’s time to enjoy the numerous Oscar-oriented Photoshops, memes and BuzzFeed articles currently flooding the Internet.

Life is grand.