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Re: *** Official 2008 Oscars Nominations List and Forum Discussion Thread
I'm not sure perceptions have changed that much. If you check the viewership numbers in that link I included, you'll see that the number of people who watched the Oscars when Rain Man and Driving Miss Daisy were winning is pretty much the same as the number of people who watched it when Million Dollar Baby and The Departed were winning. And for people about our age (I mean you and me, Chuck), the Oscars in the late '80s were probably when we were at an age that was most likely to have attached real prestige to them. So I don't see how the numbers would support a hypothesis about the Oscars having less prestige for kids today than they did 20 years ago.
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