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The Oscars lately can't even pander correctly without controversy.

Hour TV shows that used to run 52 minutes now run 42-43 minutes, so I'm assuming the networks allot that same amount of commercial time for award shows, which means they allot around 18 minutes of commercials an hour. So in three hours it's nearly an hour of commercials, and yet they (ABC)...

I remember when CBS's Saturday Night lineup was the most watched night of television! Although generally agreed on that Sunday night is the most watched night of TV, I looked at the top ten rated shows each year since 2010 and except for Sunday Night Football, none of the top ten shows were on...

Does anyone think AMPAS should go back to having the Oscars on a Monday night? Maybe by the time the actual show is on people are worn out from all the other clutter being aired beforehand. Among other reasons. And people have a whole day to do something else besides "get home from work to turn...

Seriously, Tino, NONE of that applies? I know you liked these awards this year, because you were happy, as many are, that CODA won Best Picture and you predicted all but two of the eventual winners in all the categories. The point of my post was that people have always written about the Oscar...

I thought I'd share a few lines from an article I read about the Oscars: --The Academy should fold its tent and go back to making apple strudel or whatever they can do well. They're a disgrace. --I wish there was an award you can believe in again. The Oscar has become a political gesture or a...

Where was this? I've always wondered, since Cabaret won 8 Academy Awards, the most ever for a film that didn't also win Best Picture, how close the vote might've been in that category.

Back in 2016 Jada Pinkett Smith jumped all over media denouncing AMPAS and suggested a boycott as the #OscarsSoWhite meme became a thing on Twitter. Also, it was said she was miffed because Will didn't get a nomination for the film Concussion. (A film he could have gotten one for, but the film...

I never thought this was staged from the start. Doesn't one have to ask: Why the hell would they stage something like that on the Oscars? If those two had thought this was a good idea, that in itself would've been unwarranted. It shows you where people's minds are at when they think something...

I saw this performance. Nuanced/subtle = dull and uninteresting...to me. This is proof that people watching the same thing can experience polar opposite reactions. Parallel Mothers is one of my least favorite Almodovar films. Again, opposite reactions. People's tastes are different. I loved...

Will Smith is 53 years old; if he doesn't know better by now. After the incident one of his boys tweeted out, "And that's how we do it." "Teach your children well?" Gee, you make it sound like popular is a bad thing. If Jada can get people to see her as a victim, they don't know Jada. And I'm...

At least one person did get escorted out of the Oscars nine years ago: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oscars-paperman-producer-thrown-animated-424023/ So you'd only care for a film awards show that catered to your own tastes? Good luck on finding ONE of those types of...

https://www.goldderby.com/article/2022/penelope-cruz-parallel-mothers-will-win-oscar/

Nowadays looking for "offense and grievance" in everything is de rigueur. (Was Ansel Elgort invited?)

How about an Oscar Trivia Question? One of this year’s 10 Best Picture nominees has an Oscar winning Best Song featured* in it. A.) Name the Best Picture nominee from this year. B.) Name the Oscar winning song featured in it. C.) Name the film that song is from. *def. featured made a feature...

First, no one is saying CODA can't win because of precursor stats. It's a probability factor. There's always a chance. Just a week ago people were writing that Sam Elliott's remarks would make The Power of the Dog a shoo-in. CODA wins PGA so now people are writing it's the frontrunner. To be...

^^^ Does anyone else think that with a week to go they're going to change their plans now? I don't. ___ Also, with the caveat that anything surely can happen... Tino & Matt: I would not count on CODA winning Best Picture as much as you are, for several reasons. 1.) The PGA (since the award...

FILMS THAT WON BEST PICTURE BUT HAD NO EDITING NOMINATION 1934 (Best Picture: It Happened One Night) 1937 (Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola) 1948 (Best Picture: Hamlet) 1955 (Best Picture: Marty) 1963 (Best Picture: Tom Jones) 1966 (Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons) 1974 (Best Picture...

There are statistics and trends, upsides and downsides, used by Oscar prognosticators as to what might win Best Picture and other categories. For a long period of years one of those was that the DGA recipient would win the Oscar and the Best Picture would be the same film. Since the advent of...

^^^ Not happening. Right from the start this has felt like a done deal. ___ As for the Best Picture nominees this year, how many have seen some, most or all of them? I watched the last one I needed to see this week and I'm going to put down the five I'd list in my order of preference to win...

I mentioned in a few posts that it's "ABC" that's the instigator in a lot of what's happening with the telecast. I don't know if that's entirely true. The year American Sniper was a Best Picture nominee and had made over $300 million, by far the most seen film of the nominees, at lest at the...

^^^ The best news from that article is: "With Academy president David Rubin being termed out and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson leaving the Academy at the end of her contract, there will be new leaders to eventually take Oscar into the future." Bye-bye.

Speaking of only AMPAS unless otherwise noted, each of their separate branches nominates the films in their respective categories. (For example, the Costume Designers branch vote for the nominations in their category. The actors in the acting category. Every AMPAS branch votes for the Best...

AMPAS has been under pressure by ABC for several years to do exactly what they're trying this year. They have a contract with ABC for 5-6 more years. According to Hollywood journalist Anne Thompson (IndieWire among others) ABC comes to meetings with AMPAS with notebooks filled with documentation...

^^^ So even though it's never been done that way and has no chance to be done that way, you guys are doubling down and saying all of those awards should be handed out LIVE on the Oscar telecast, too. Well Jose, Tino, Jake and Joe, you have gone off the deep end. The last ceremony had 17 such...

I like the way they did it last year and had all the songs and performances on the pre-show. I, and those I was with, actually watched them and paid attention. The songs slow down the actual show when you're waiting to see whose winning the awards and have to wait for yet another song you mostly...

I don't know why anyone thinks an Oscar statuette is going to be awarded at the ceremony by a Twitter vote. AMPAS's press release just says that the film will be "recognized." You also can vote on your "favorite film moment of 2021". "The winning film and scene will then be featured during this...

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will, in fact, be televised on ABC, Sunday, February 20th. (It's also streaming on Hulu.) This will be the first time an Oscar-nominated documentary is screened on primetime television in the weeks leading up to the Awards ceremony.

^^^ Egads! From the above article: Three Twitter users who cast their votes during the Feb. 14 to March 3 period will be selected — along with their guests — to have an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to present an Oscar award at the following ceremony.

Opinions can change, but one doesn't have to have an opinion immediately. Someone online recently wanted to know my opinion of something and I said I didn't have one. They could not fathom that. "How can you not have an opinion?" I explained that I didn't have enough information about the topic...