Which 2007 Tony Pundit Picked the Most Winners?

The 2007 Tony Award results are in, and it's time to see which Broadway pundit did the best job of choosing the winners. Overall, the pundits were helped by a lack of surprise winners—with a few major exceptions: None of our panel members, for example, picked David Hyde Pierce to win Best Actor in a Musical all had expected Raul Esparza to take the prize, and only eight out of 19 chose Julie White as Best Actress in a Play. We've presented the results in alphabetical order since there was such a range in the number of predictions by each pundit. Critics from The New York Times, for example, went on the record in only 10 categories. The overall winner was Melissa Rose Bernardo of Entertainment Weekly, who correctly predicted 21 of the 25 competitive categories. Here's how each pundit fared:

Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly: 21 out of 25 correct
David Cote/Adam Feldman, TimeOut NY: 20 out of 24 correct
Matt Windman, AM New York: 19 out of 25 correct
Paul Wontorek, Broadway.com: 19 out of 25 correct
Patrick Pacheco, The Los Angeles Times*: 18 out of 25 correct
Linda Winer, Newsday: 18 out of 25 correct
Michael Riedel, New York Post: 15 out of 20 correct
Andrew Gans, Playbill*: 14 out of 17 correct
Martin Denton, NYTheatre.com*: 13 out of 17 correct
Andy Humm, Gay U.S.A.*: 13 out of 17 correct
Tom O'Neil, TheEnvelope.com*: 13 out of 17 correct
Paul Sheehan, TheEnvelope.com*: 12 out of 17 correct
Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News*: 11 out of 17 correct
Elysa Gardner, USA Today*: 11 out of 17 correct
Susan Haskins, Theater Talk*: 11 out of 17 correct
David Sheward, Backstage*: 11 out of 17 correct
Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times: 8 out of 10 correct
Ben Brantley, The New York Times: 8 out of 10 correct
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times: 8 out of 10 correct
*As predicted on Showbiz Awards' Gold Derby