Next Oscars Move To Avoid Winter Games

COMMENTS (7)

• Great! I can give up watching both of the events for Lent…(starts Feb 17th…)

  Comment by gabriele — Wednesday March 25, 2009 @ 3:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Does the Academy not get that old news is old news faster now than ever before and that March might as well be never?!? Besides, March is about Basketball.

  In April 2010, the Academy will admit that its decision to wait to air the Oscar telecast honoring films from 2009 until March 2010 was inane ineptitude. History will show that this decision inflicted a mortal wound in the Gold Man.

  Comment by HopePA — Wednesday March 25, 2009 @ 8:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Selection Sunday 2010 is scheduled for March 14. Meanwhile, the ceremony itself isn’t going to be hurt by the scheduling of basketball games. The AMPAS could care less. Besides, a few ceremonies have been held on Selection Sunday before and you have two different crowds for each event. A big time film buff wouldn’t care about North Carolina’s #1 seed or if the University of Minnesota will get into the Big Dance.

  That same film buff will only give a glancing meh at his or her University making the postseason even if that University is undefeated but has a big shot at losing in the first round while considering it a crime if Clock Tower wins six Oscars but Best Picture isn’t among the winners while hoping that the Three Stooges wins 7 Razzies including Jim Carrey winning the worst excuse for a haircut award.

  For the record, the only reason why there was a change is due to the Olympics being a event where all people are drawn.

  Comment by Jessy S. — Wednesday March 25, 2009 @ 10:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• For those of you that don’t remember, the Oscars used to be on a Monday in late March for most of the 70′s 80′s and 90′s

  Comment by RPB — Wednesday March 25, 2009 @ 11:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The Oscars had much higher ratings in late March (where they were aired comfortably for, oh, about seven decades), than they had in February, where they were great as sweeps programming, but otherwise too soon.

  Comment by TorontoTodd — Thursday March 26, 2009 @ 12:51am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki, the Oscars are no longer honest, or relevant. The products are mostly immoral and/or unpatriotic, the hosts America-hating jerks, and the winners picked either for political (Penn) or affirmative action (Foxx/Hudson) reasons.

  Meh.

  Comment by TJ — Thursday March 26, 2009 @ 2:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• a few additional weeks of those tedious ads, can’t they put a limit on those?

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday March 26, 2009 @ 11:20pm PDT  Reply to this post