“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,†said Sid Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.â€
“Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize,†commented Ganis. “I can’t wait to see what that list of ten looks like when the nominees are announced in February.â€
Yeah right, come February we will be stuck once again with 10 movies vying for Best Picture that most of the world has not seen nor do they ever plan on seeing. I know the Academy is trying to find a way to get people interested in the Oscars again and nominating 10 films is not the answer. Not only because it is going to make the broadcast even longer than it already was with tributes to each of the 10 movie, but because they are not going to pick movies that the general public wants to see. Instead of picking movies that only come out in very limited release in the last days of December just to be nominated, pick movies that come out throughout the year that people went to see over and over again. This year so far we have Star Trek and Up and coming up in the next few months we have Public Enemies and Inglourious Basterds. May the people who are deciding which 10 movies will be going for Hollywood’s highest honor, stop choosing extremely boring movies that barely anyone saw before the show and will only see once because that is as many times as you can watch them like Crash, No Country for Old Men and The Departed (I had to look up the winners on Wikipedia) and try to remember the days when you choose movies like Titanic, Forrest Gump and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Movies people saw and continue to watch today. The Oscar should go to movies that have made an impact and will continue to make an impact in the future. Because the last few winner have been forgotten almost as soon as the winners walked off the stage. They have been movies the general movie goer can’t root for. Stop being such elitists and remember the Oscars are not only about the people who vote for the winners, it is about movie goers all over the world! So vote as the average movie goer would and we will back watching the show full force no matter who is hosting. But it would be nice to have either Billy Crystal or Hugh Jackman back for the show when it airs on March 7th!
BTW I chose that picture of the Oscar statues wrapped in plastic because that is how I feel when I hear who is nominated and a few weeks later watching the show…suffocated!!!
Due the Olympics all the Awards shows have been moved out February and into either January or in the case of the biggest one of them all, the Oscars will air on March 7th! It will be interesting to see how the over a month difference between all the shows and the Oscars will affect the Academy Awards.
Talking about awards shows…looks like after months of uncertainty the Daytime Emmys is very close to finding a network to air them. According to Gold Derby The CW is in discussions to air them around August 31st!!! I am so happy that The CW is considering them because it would have been a shame had TV shunned them!!! And I will be even happier if Days of our Lives and General Hospital dominate the show!!!
Fox News is reporting that Billy Crystal is ready to return as the host to the Oscars next year!!! I don’t care what the Academy has to do to get him back, but please do it! He is the best living Oscar host out there and they so need him back!!! No one since he started is a 1/4 as good as him and no matter what changes they make it won’t make up for much if you don’t have a good host like Billy Crystal! Not that Hugh Jackman was that bad, but he was no Billy!!!
Last night at the end of the Oscars they had a bunch of clips from the upcoming movies of 2009 and I wonder how many of them will part of the ceremony next year? I def saw a few that I am sure will be there like Inglourious Basterds, Amelia and Public Enemies to name a few!
BTW this was a cool add, I hope they keep doing this for years to come!
Awards Season is finally over and here is who won at the biggest Awards show of them all!
– Motion Picture: “Slumdog Millionaire.”
– Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk.”
– Actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader.”
– Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight.”
– Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
– Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
– Foreign Film: “Departures,” Japan.
– Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
– Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, “Milk.”
– Animated Feature Film: “WALL-E.”
– Art Direction: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
– Cinematography: “Slumdog Millionaire.”
– Sound Mixing: “Slumdog Millionaire.”
– Sound Editing: “The Dark Knight.”
– Original Score: “Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman.
– Original Song: “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman and Gulzar.
– Costume: “The Duchess.” – Documentary Feature: “Man on Wire.”
– Documentary (short subject): “Smile Pinki.” – Film Editing: “Slumdog Millionaire.” – Makeup: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
– Animated Short Film: “La Maison en Petits Cubes.”
– Live Action Short Film: “Spielzeugland (Toyland).”
– Visual Effects: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
It was yet another pretty much boring Oscars. Hugh Jackman did a good job and I loved his dance numbers. But minus those, his hosting was to minimal, they should have used him more.
The promise the show would go three hours, did not happen because of two wastes of times. One the stupid montages for the movies of 2008, minus the one that I couldn’t find on YouTube with James Franco and Seth Rogen. Where was the horror one? Huh? The other was bringing 5 past winners to announce the new winner. The Robert DeNiro to Sean Penn was the best, but some of the other ones were awkward and boring. Next year skip those!
Speeches! Loved Kate Winslet and Sean Penn. About time Kate won and gave a great speech! And who knew Sean Penn could be so funny? A positive to the Academy was that they didn’t cut the speeches short and play that rude music! Please do that again!
The part of the Oscars that infuriated me was what they did to “In Memoriam”. While having Queen Latifah sing live was a nice touch, but to not have the video full screened was an insult to those who died. I couldn’t always tell who they were honoring and I thought that was rude.
To the producers who tried to get that stink eye glance from Angelina Jolie when Jennifer Aniston tried to be funny, I am glad that didn’t work in your favor. Just like a lot of the jokes you wrote for the presenters. And talking about the presenter…where the stars? Jack Nicholson? Tom Hanks? Julia Roberts? Robin Williams? Tom Cruise? Jack Nicholson? Yeah I said him twice because he is always there…
OK! I am done with movie Awards shows for another 10 months!!!
