Even though the Oscars were more in touch, I’d say, than they’ve been since I started watching them (I will always have a fondness in my heart for the clunky old timey versions too), and even though their choices were still out touch, the Bagger thinks that, with the seal now broken, they can take it even further: Next year, the Academy might consider a generational...
Monthly Archives: February 2009
The winner of Awards Daily’s first place prize is Joseph Vosti, with a score of 23. The second place winners are Christopher Dickie and Mike Cersosimo, with a score of 22. Congratulations to you two. Please send an email with your name and mailing address to awardsdaily to claim your prizes. And if you think a mistake has been made, please email me. ...
Joaquin Phoenix, subject of a very funny parody by Frank Coraci at the Spirit Awards Saturday and a considerably less funny parody by Ben Stiller during last night’s Oscars — and that’s not even counting the probable self-parody that Phoenix is orchestrating himself with Casey Affleck. What do we think of Two Lovers, and how about Phoenix and his new...
Yeah, of course it’d be Mark Lisanti, who is now working over at Vanity Fair. His rundown is the best and the funniest I’ve read thus far. He pays tribute where it’s deserved and mocks where it’s deserved: The Sweded Opening Number Though opinion on the ceremony’s Be Kind Rewind-esque opening number seems violently divided between those who...
Bump and grind. The bump is the 13% increase in viewership over last year’s broadcast (from 32 million in 2008 to 36.3 million last night). The grind is the fact that’s this increase falls short of the 40 million viewers who tuned in 2 years ago and doesn’t come close to the 55 million who watched a decade ago, the year Titanic took home 11 trophies...