RECOVERY SUMMARY A festival scoreboard published two Oscar short-film winners 173 minutes before envelopes were opened. The update window exists; the edit log for that window is blank.
EXTRACTED DATA Source event: FilmQuest Festival post-awards analysis, published after the Academy Awards short-film categories and noting a two-way split in prediction accuracy. Public context window: 2026 awards cycle, short film categories only, n=3 categories tracked.
At 2026-03-02T21:14:07-08:00, a cached FilmQuest results page displayed two entries later matching the final Oscar short-film winners. Academy broadcast reveal times: 2026-03-03T00:07:31-05:00 and 2026-03-03T00:20:18-05:00. Lead interval: 173.4 min and 160.2 min.
Capture set: 4 cache snapshots, 2 CDN mirrors, 1 social embed. Text string identical across all 7 copies, including punctuation. CMS revision history shows nearest logged edit at 2026-03-02T18:02:44-08:00. Next logged edit: 2026-03-02T22:11:09-08:00. Interval containing the winner text: null.
Page metadata lists status "published", field "last_modified" unchanged, author token valid. Assessment: chronological inversion, single artifact.
INTEGRITY NOTES Integrity check: passed. Cataloging parameters within specification. Block 2 contains values outside baseline publication order. Source of deviation: data, not extraction process.
SOURCE ANCHOR Variety - How the FilmQuest Festival Predicted the Oscars’ Short Film Wins and Two-Way Split
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