Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger has been offering good coverage of the decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to double the number of movies nominated for Best Picture, from five to 10. The idea apparently is to make some room for big box-office hits like last year’s “The Dark Knight.” Even though [...]
I had wondered last night how the Academy Awards ceremony would fare in the ratings. Today, the answer came, courtesy of Nielsen Media Research, which says the telecast drew 36.3 million viewers. The good news: That audience was up over last year by more than 4 million viewers. The bad news: Only two other Oscar [...]
When the night’s biggest upset comes in the Foreign-Language Film category, that’s a sign that the Academy Awards have gone mostly according to form.
And, sure enough, “Slumdog Millionaire” dominated Sunday’s Oscars, just the way that I (and virtually every other Oscar pundit) had predicted. I can’t say I’m unhappy about the big wins for “Slumdog [...]
In the wake of Thursday’s Academy Award nominations, I was happy to see that Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” finally is scheduled to open in Corvallis on Friday. You know by now, of course, that “Millionaire” collected 10 nominations, second only to the 13 that went to “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” I hate to [...]
