Since the Vancouver Winter Olympics run from February 12th – 28th next year, the Oscar schedule is shifting forward two weeks for 2010 giving us all 14 more days to savor the anxiety anticipation. Although it’s only being touted as a one-year arrangement, the more spacious range of dates will provide an interesting opportunity to try on some sanity for size. Let’s hope it feels like a good fit. The key dates:
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009: Official Screen Credits forms due
- Monday, December 28, 2009: Nominations ballots mailed
- Saturday, January 23, 2010: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
- Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
- Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Final ballots mailed
- Monday, February 15, 2010: Nominees Luncheon
- Saturday, February 20, 2010: Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010: Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
- Sunday, March 7, 2010: 82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation
No word yet on the date when it’s officially ok to start talking about “locks” without sounding unhinged.
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Will we have another Crash debacle, when AMPAS gets tired of the frontrunner?
Great, now we have 14 more days to discuss and torture ourselves with anticipation.
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but the nom poll closing thing is about the same time it was this year ???
Oscars in March again! Hopefully this means a few movies that come late to the game (like Revolutionary Road most recently) can find some extra room to squeeze into the race. The potential benefits of more time for campaigning for certain movies is all conjecture, since we never know if maybe AMPAS just won’t go for a movie and would not have gone for it under any circumstances, but still, the extra time can’t hurt.
Of course, I look forward to nominations morning with a feverish form of anticipation, so having to wait even longer for that early wake up call kind of sucks, but at least I’ll have the Olympics here at home to keep my mind busy.
cdmc, AMPAS didn’t get tired of the frontrunner. The Oscars were a Feb event that year, and I still place my belief in the theory that it was homophobia that lost Brokeback the Oscar it deserved. Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis et al. have convinced me of that, and Ang Lee is another supporter of that theory.
As to the date change, boy am I happy! Hopefully it’ll mean that we won’t have another sweep year like this year. I don’t resent Slumdog’s success, even if I wasn’t the film’s biggest fan, but who could really say they were particularly stimulated by the eventual results…?
Latest it’s been since 2003?
It doesn’t matter if the Academy is trying to avoid airing at the same time as the Olympics. Nobody is going to watch it anyways.
“Nobody is going to watch it anyways.”
Except, you know, us. But whatever.
if we can talk about locks, can we talk about hosts? Has Hugh Jackman been given the job for the second year?
My advice if the want ratings gold:
Stick with the present date and feature Olympics ladies free skate as the main attraction of the Oscar ceremony.
… Olympics theme – nice.
How about Gold, Silve and Bronze statuettes
I wonder whether the date change will affect the dates of other awards presentations, like the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, etc.
Ever since they shortened the awards calendar, things have been too rushed.
And although I like Hugh Jackman, I hope they don’t ask him back as host.
THAT IS MUCH TOO LONG TO WAIT TO SEE KATE (KATE WINSLET) WIN ANOTHER OSCAR!
GO KATE!!!!
More KAte Winslet articles please
it will give me some extra time to do the full AD Nomination process for (nearly) all categories.
…it will give me time to go through at one additional mood swing cycle.
The good thing, is that it improves the odds of a nicer weekend for people who live in the cold winter areas like NYC/Northern NJ (where I reside) but as others have rightly admitted, it drags out the process, thereby diminishing the significance just a little bit more.
At this point, Sam, many people might benefit from a longer process. That way people would have more time to see the films. A couple of weeks goes by more quickly than what used to be a month.
And although I’m not sure Ryan is eager to experience “one additional mood swing cycle,” I myself could benefit from an extra-long wash and spin cycle.
How is it that it’s March 27th and only one movie/name makes the contenders list? And, it’s an animated movie. Realistically, that is nine months of possible movies in a year. No wonder why studios hold back on the “Oscar Contenders” until the last month.
I for one miss intelligent well made movies this time of the year and also mid- to late-summer. Haven’t seen a truly good movie since December 08.
Would voters of the Academy please vote for the best not the most favoured or cast a vote based on some other criteria. It has seriously cheapened the prestige of the Oscars for a great many years now.
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