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So... Green Lantern won best picture? :D

Something tells me that Green Room is not a Mike movie. :)

I get why Spielberg wants to preserve the theatrical experience. And I would encourage that effort given the clout he has. But I’d also like to see him use that same clout to raise the quality of the average cinema experience in a way that doesn’t pass the entirety of that expense on to the...

I think it really depends. In my view, nothing can beat the experience of seeing a movie presented via the IMAX 4K dual laser projector setup on their giant screens, or Dolby Cinema’s similar presentations. But that represents less than 1% of all movie showtimes. There are a ton of...

Probably, yes. I think the biggest uphill battle that all content creators, be it for film, television, music, or anything else, have to face in 2019 and beyond is getting people who consume their content to pay for it. Advertising revenue on television isn’t what it once was. Illegal...

Green Book can currently be purchased digitally in UHD resolution on services like iTunes and Vudu.

Peter Farrelly’s behavior seems worse to me. The reason I say that is the way the “joke” would play out. Bobby Farrelly, who is Peter’s brother and was a co-producer/director on Peter’s sets, would unquestionably be seen as an authority figure, “the boss.” Imagine that your boss walks up to you...

I really am surprised that Green Book won major awards. Or more accurately, that Peter Farrelly did. The guy is on record for exposing himself over 500 times to unsuspecting cast and crew members as part of a bizarre joke, where his brother would bring over unsuspecting victims and then Peter...

Tino - wondering if it’s just not worth taking the bait anymore.

Wow, that guy is awful.

I loved when Whoopi hosted - what was that, the 90s? I thought she did a phenomenal job.

I'll do it. They probably pay at least as much for that gig as I make in a year anyway, and the weather is nicer in Los Angeles than New York this time of year. :D

I remember when I was in film school, those who did the most depressing shorts usually received the most recognition from teachers/faculty/festival curators. Those who did more action-based shorts would be perceived as people more interested in the technical craft of filmmaking than...

Its been a while since I’ve seen all the nominated shirts in a particular year, but my recollection of recent years is that they tend to be on the bleaker or more dour side. I’m wondering if there’s a reason for that. When the live action short categories were created (both fiction and...

It’s really not hard to do, and the Deadline editorial made it seem more complicated than necessary. To explain my idea, which isn’t even mine - other Awards shows have tried this - During commercial breaks, nominees for the award categories that will be given out in the next segment are...

I don’t buy any of that. I think the answer is much simpler (and dumber). ABC wants The Oscars to do for them what the Super Bowl does for other networks. But these are two completely different events with two different audiences looking to get different things out of the event. The Academy...

So it appears that cutting off four awards -- the highest possible recognition that the people in those professions could ever hope to receive - would save a whopping 6 to 8 minutes. Color me unimpressed.

If I had the time and patience, I’d be curious to throw a couple of recent broadcasts into an editing timeline and to then cut out the things that most of us agree have no part being there - like last year’s Wrinkle In Time screening stunt - and then see how long the show runs. I bet if those...

The Cinematography category is usually the one I watch most closely. Seriously considering bailing on the show. Like that Times article that someone linked her earlier said, this show should be celebration of the art form of movies, but the Academy seems embarassed of their own industry. I can...

It almost seems like the Academy as ashamed of their show and embarassed about evangelizing movies — and for the first time in ages, I’m giving serious thought to skipping it. If they’re not gonna care, why should I?

It took my parents a few years to finally allow that, but eventually that’s the way it was for me too.

That was ultimately my takeaway from the film as well - I just didn't understand it's reason for existing. I wasn't sure what story it was trying to tell, how the filmmakers wanted me to feel as an audience member, or what I was meant to do with any of the information that the film provided...

Like A Star Is Born, Black Panther was never really a serious contender for Best Picture, as evidenced by its lack of a Best Director nomination.

I don’t know. It was a conundrum last year too - Three Billboards and Shape Of Water seemed to be the front runners, and Shape’s genre was a problem and Three Billboard’s lack of a director nomination was a problem, and in the end, missing the Best Director nomination seemed to matter more. So...

A Star Is Born was done the moment it wasn’t nominated for Best Director. Fair or not, with only five Best Director slots and eight Best Picture slots, three of those BP nominations were essentially automatically worthless in the race.

I am in favor of expanding the number of director nominee slots to match the number of Best Picture slots per year. It doesn’t mean that every film nominated for BP should automatically get a Best Director nomination, but if there are 8 slots for Best Picture, there should be 8 slots for Best...

I still find it bizarre that there’s such a fixation on the length of the show, as if world peace will be jeopardized if it goes over three hours. Especially in an era where the most well received television programming is that which breaks outside the box of traditional scheduling and running...

There hasn't been a winner that's been entirely in a non-English language, but there have been several winners (like "Dances with Wolves") where a substantial portion of the film is not in English.

I am also surprised that Warner botched the submission process (missed the deadline) for submitting They Shall Not Grow Old for the documentary award. That would have seemed like a no-brainer.