The Academy Award Nominations will be announced tomorrow morning. For the first time since the early 1940s there will be ten Best Picture noms. Many think this means there is an outside change that some “left-field” pick could make the top ten. I doubt it. If you understand the math . . . the ten will be made up films picked at number 1 or number 2 on ballots. Can you image The Hangover, The Blind Side or Star Trek being among the top two on very many ballots?
The Oscar race: Isn’t anyone picking ‘The Hangover’ for best picture?
In politics — even with pollsters hounding voters every day of the week — whenever you look around at election time, you can find a stunning upset in the making, as we all saw recently in the Massachusetts Senate race. So why doesn’t it happen in Hollywood at Oscar time? Do members of the motion picture academy really have such drearily predictable artistic tastes that any half-bright Oscar blogger can pretty much predict what films they’ll nominate? ● More from: The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times
Oscar Futures: Our Final Pre-Nomination Predictions
Every week between now and February 2 when the nominations are announced, movies and stars will help themselves — or sometimes, hurt themselves — in the Oscar race. Vulture’s “Oscar Futures” will listen for insider gossip, comb the blogs, and out-and-out guess when necessary to track who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted nomination. ● More from:
