Oscars Recap
atomicpopcorn.net 2/24/2009 — Do the Oscar's Matter? Hollywood continued to shine (on a slightly smaller budget) at the Kodak Theatre for the 81rst Academy Awards. Hosted by the multi-talented Hugh Jackman, this star studded event went underway on Sunday evening while producers crossed their fingers, hoping that the ...

2010: March Oscar Madness
atomicpopcorn.net 3/25/2009 — It looks like the NCAA tournament isn’t going to be the only thing happening in March now. Announced today from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was the newest date for next year’s Academy Awards. The golden boy will have to sit out a little longer on his shelf by ...

Oscars: Miley Cyrus on the Red Carpet
filmgecko.com 2/23/2009 — Miley Cyrus is one of the first stars to make her way down the red carpet at tonight’s Oscars. . I LOVE her dress. She said that it must weigh 100,000 lbs., and just looking at it, I believe it. What do you think? Image: Picapp.com Tags: 2009 academy awards , ...

Film Gecko: Live-Blogging the Oscars!
filmgecko.com 2/22/2009 — The Oscars are the place to be tonight, and I’m live-blogging the event right here on Film Gecko . Who will take home those coveted statuettes? Will it be Mickey Rourke? The Slumdog Millionaire crowd? Kate Winslet? Heath Ledger? I’m betting all of the above will score big ...

Oh...
hollywood-elsewhere.com 3/26/2009 — Yesterday I asked why the 2009 Oscars are happening two and a half weeks later than they did last year -- on Sunday, March 7, 2010 rather than Sunday, February 21, 2010. The idea is to avoid overlapping with the Winter Olympics, which will go from ...

A Small Oscars
carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 2/23/2009 — It looks like they might bring this one in at under three hours, so I'll curb my complaining. And I'll close by noting that this seemed not only like a relatively brief Oscar ceremony, but a small one. Maybe this is a harbinger of things to come.

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 ...

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 ...

Oscars pushed back
cinefille.blogspot.com 3/25/2009 — The AP is reporting that next years Oscar ceremony will be held March 7, 2010, two weeks later than this year's ceremony. Why? Because the Winter Olympics are scheduled for February 12 to 28. If the Oscars were held the last weekend in February, it would conflict with the Olympics closing ...

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 ...