Awards Aftermath
What did you all think of the Academy Awards last night? I think Jon Stewart summed it up best after the Film Editing award when he said, "Wow. Film Editing. Somebody just took the lead in their Oscar pool by guessing."
By that I mean to say that I didn't see any of these awards coming--seriously, had I joined an Oscar pool I would have lost for sure. Bourne? Tilda Swinton? Admittedly, No Country was a great movie, but I really thought There Will Be Blood would have had this year in the bag. At least Daniel Day-Lewis won the best actor award. He was phenomenal in that movie.
How did your predictions turn out? Did anybody see this coming?
Also, some one needs to help me out: When they showcased all the films that had won Best Picture about half-way through the program, what was the movie score that was playing in the background? This is killing me...
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I think you guys are lost in tvland, you have it all wrong, no body listens to hollywood anymore, especally when they trott out people like john stewart, nobody cares, and nobody wants to listen to the likes of him. The comedy girl (cant remember her name) who touts the award is her new God!, and then theres Sally fields (what a twit) The academy is a waste of good tv time.
Chris McRae
When fed a constant diet of celebrity faces in magazines, tabloid TV and Internet access, the excitement of seeing performers, yet again, loses lustre. Listening to "honing their craft" sound bytes also becomes tedious. The specialness of Oscar Night may return only when spending an evening with favorite performers is something more than same-old, same-old.
Maybe the Golden Globes had the right idea this year -- a half-hour program where all the nominees and winners are listed off clinically and then everyone goes home. That way actors can still command the infamous Oscar salary bump and the American public can find better ways to spend their time?
I have an idea about how to make the awards show more interesting. Let each of the studios get a three- or four-minute slot on the telecast to show a promo reel of their upcoming movies for the summer. This would give moviegoers around the world the perfect opportunity to get their first look at the big movies coming up, and also give the studios the opportunity to showcase their product. This would help to bridge the gap between the increase in smaller, independent movies that have been getting more and more nominations in recent years and the more commercial studio films that often get "ignored" by the Academy or only get nominations in technical categories. If people knew that they were going to get their first look at the new Indiana Jones movie or a new Spiderman movie, for example, on the Oscar telecast in February, it would surely have made more people watch and would have boosted the ratings.