Pete Hammond is floating an idea that Academy members can’t come up with ten movies to put on their ballots. In fact, usually voters send in their ballots early but not this year: However, as the 5 p.m.¬†Saturday¬†deadline for turning in¬†ballots¬†listing those¬†10¬†choices¬†looms for¬†voters,¬†there are a remarkable number of¬†academy...
In recent years, the Golden Globes have proved themselves not good predictor of Oscar’s Best Picture, drama. If you subtract last year’s steamroller, Slumdog Millionaire, you will see that the Globes don’t always “influence” Oscar the way one might thing. They are a group of about 100 dubious members of the “foreign press,” whose...
Tom O’Neil and Patrick Day over that The Envelope’s Buzzmeter have assembled a large group of folks, including Pete Travers and Michael Musto (I hope that Musto and O’Neil do some Oscar videos this year – they were funny and insightful together). He says that they’ll be updating them more as time goes on but this is a prelim count –...
It’s always illuminating to hear from various smart folks around the web and I feel grateful that they indulge my needling questions week after week; after all, it isn’t like any of the have any time to spare. I figure, the more intelligence we can bring to the table the better. This week we’re pondering the Governors Awards, the bad economy on the...