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Ever since I purchased my first VCR in the early '90s, and now that I've had a DVR for about fifteen years, it's never taken me more than about an hour or at the very most an hour and a half to watch any Oscar telecast. And even that length of viewing still feels like a long slog.

I'd like to know what anyone else felt about the montage of film clips that were shown during the salute to Warner Brothers 100th anniversary... An amazing output of great films, to be sure, but I found it a bit disingenuous that some of the films included were not really WB films at all. That...

True. And after all, the holy high council of the AMPAS turned down an offer by the President of Ukraine to provide a comment during the ceremony. I suppose it would have interfered with the intention the show was striving for of "things getting back to normal." If normal means keeping your...

I watched most of the ceremony on fast-forward (it's the only way anymore that I can stomach glad-handing awards shows). The one takeaway I had that was disappointing and slightly distasteful was it seemed the audience was OK with giving standing ovations to each actor and actress that won an...

Thanks for your response. I think you're correct that the comment by the anonymous director-voter you posted would likely know if his ballot would still be valid if they abstained from completing all ten picks in the BP category, so that answered my question. My curiosity stemmed from the fact...

I have a question about the voting procedure for Best Picture nominees, there seem to be some knowledgeable people here who might know the answer: When voters fill out their picks for the Best Picture, is there a rule that they must rank ALL the pictures on the ballot? That is, say that I'm a...

I haven't given any credence to the Oscars since the 1980s, when it seemed that every Best Picture winner was some bloated mediocre message/epic film. And once AMPAS decided to increase the Best Picture category to 8, 9, or 10 nominees (in service of "inclusion"), I thoroughly relegated it to...