guardian.co.uk - 12/9/2008
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The European film awards are a movable feast, shuttling out to various cities from its alternate-year base in Berlin. This year's venue was Copenhagen, which seems a solid, handsome and quietly respectable city right up until the moment you walk across a bridge and fetch up in Christiania. ...
Do the Oscar’s really matter?
atomicpopcorn.net 2/23/2009 — Do the Oscars matter?
Last year, my girlfriend and I attended an event hosted by the Academy called “Meet The Oscars” where you could walk into a room next to the Kodak Theatre and have the Oscar experience recreated for you. When you enter you’re bombarded by paparazzi ...
Oscars 2009: live blog of the 81st Academy Awards
guardian.co.uk 2/23/2009 — 11.12pm: Code amber at the 81st annual Academy Awards. Welcome, welcome one and all: to the liggers behind the cordons, the dignitaries in their limos and to the hoi-polloi like us, camped out in front of the TV set. The carpet is laid, the lamps ...
You're Asking Me About What?
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 2/10/2009 — The Bagger was out in Times Square last night, making video and asking people about the Oscars. And you know what, most people acted like he was asking whether they were wearing boxers or briefs.
Mark Harris on this year's Oscar nominees
guardian.co.uk 2/1/2009 — Immediately after the nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced, the usual guessing games began - not only the one about who will win, but the even more fruitless enterprise of sifting the list for What It All Means. Trying to ...
Discuss: Make the Academy Awards More Like the Super Bowl
cinematical.com 2/4/2009 — Every year, it's the same old story: the Academy Awards are out of touch with "the people." The Academy Awards TV show must be changed. The ratings are down! The sky is falling! Every year, the Academy swears this year will be different: the ...
2010 Academy Awards Pushed Back to March
getthebigpicture.net 3/25/2009 — Next year's Academy Awards will be pushed back to March 7th, delaying the anticipation for
movies most Americans will never see by a full two weeks. Maybe you're thinking, as I did, "Wasn't everyone
reasonably happy with this year's Oscars? Numbers went up a touch, right?"
Yes, but ...
Put spirit back in indie awards
hollywoodreporter.com 12/2/2008 — Many awards shows are judged by how predictive they are of, well, other awards shows. Do the Globes reflect what Academy voters are thinking? Will SAG yield clues on the best actor Oscar race? The industry's two indie-film kudofests -- which both ...
Live Blogging the Academy Awards!
cinefille.blogspot.com 2/22/2009 — 6:26 PM - Hello! Cinefille here and it is time to start my live-blog of the 81st Annual Academy Awards. I'm am, sadly, not watching the Red Carpet on the Big Vowel with Ryan Seacrest right now. But maybe that is a good thing. According to the text message my ex-roommate Freddie just sent me ...
Oscar voters, please save us from the inevitable
guardian.co.uk 2/11/2009 — The Globes are over and the Baftas been and gone . We have, almost imperceptibly, swung into the final stretch of this year's awards season – rattling towards the crowning Academy Awards a week on Sunday. The trophies have been polished; the seating ...
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