Two big news announcements concerning the Academy Awards, the first of which is the announcement of the producers of this year's Oscars, Academy award winner Bruce Cohen (American Beauty) and Emmy award winner Don Mischer. I trust them to do a better and less formulaic job than Adam Shankman did with this year's Oscars. We're still waiting on a host for the event, but based on the possibility of the other news, they may be deciding that soon.
The other news is that board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are meeting about potentially moving the awards show to January. This alarms me quite a bit, because it makes the voting process more hectic and uncertain than before. They need the extra month of time to work out who to vote to be nominated. Assuming that they go for a late January show, the nominations would be announced in late December. Therefore, voting would have to be finished by early December.
There are going to be quite a few late boomers this year, not the least of which is True Grit from the Coen Brothers. I hope that this doesn't come to pass, because it just doesn't seem like a good idea. Apparently the backing behind this is to crush The Golden Globes, but are they really that threatening an Awards telecast? There are a few reasons that the Globes fail, one of which is the rushed voting for nominees. Another is that they're just freeloaders who favor excess over quality. Lets hope the Oscars don't meet a similar fate.
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