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Jon Stewart makes his second hosting appearance at the 80th annual ceremonies. Telecast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Presenters include Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Tom Hanks and Helen Mirren.
  • The Hill Trumps Hollywood for Oscar Noms 2009 | Movie News | 4/14/2008
    In an unusual move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has moved back the 2009 Oscar nominations announcement date by two days, to avoid overlap with next year's presidential inauguration.Both events were scheduled for January 20, 2009, but the Academy bowed out of a head-to-head event day and moved their announcements to Jan. 22. Traditionally, the AP says, nominees are announced on a Tuesday, four weeks before the big award day. In 2009, though, that day is already set for Feb. 22, the earliest in the Awards' history.Although two days may not seem like a huge delay, the announcement pushes back award show planning, an already-tight affair of intense work for show writers and producers. The new date also squeezes Academy members to get their votes in, as ballots are mailed Jan. 28 and due back Feb. 17. And as for the groundbreaking early Oscars date, the move was made to reportedly avoid "awards fatigue" — a common syndrome that sets in among red carpet... read more
  • Ask Matt | 3/3/2008
    Q: I was surprised to hear that both the Grammys and Oscars suffered some of their lowest ratings ever this year. Initially, I thought viewership would be "normal" considering the lack of new television on the air due to the writers' strike. Do you think the popularity of nominees affects awards-show viewership? A: The lack of popular/populist best-picture nominees seems to have hurt the Oscars a bit, if you listen to some of the officials and analysts who've been quoted. Not so sure what the .. read more
  • Oscars Boss: Lack of Titanic Films Sank Our Ratings | Oscars Live Recap and News Blog | 2/27/2008
    Why was there such a lack of interest in this year's Academy Awards, leading the kudoscast to deliver its smallest audience on record? It's the movies, stupid, says producer Gil Cates, pointing out that in recent years, ratings for the show have matched the popularity of the nominated films. "I [produced] the show the year Titanic made a billion dollars and [this year's best-picture nominees] together probably didn't reach $300 million," he says. "Only Juno did really well. That's the major reason." Cates, who was a main negotiator for the successful Directors Guild contract, also blames the writers' strike. "Less people were watching the networks and less people were watching the promos," he says, pointing out that the Grammys audience similarly shrank more than 20 percent. There is some good ratings news to be had, however: Cates says that those who bothered to tune in for the Feb. 24 gala stayed tuned in for the entire show. — Ileane Rudolph read more
  • All's Well Between Oscar and Snubbed Whoopi | Oscars Live Recap and News Blog | 2/27/2008
    Four-time Oscar host Whoopi Goldberg teared up on Monday's The View after the ladies brought up her exclusion from what looked like a tribute montage to past hosts on Sunday's telecast. In turn, Gil Cates, who produced the show, called Whoopi to apologize. "That piece of film was made to honor 80 years of Oscar's most memorable moments," he told TV Guide. Because of the show's crash production schedule after the end of the WGA strike, Cates saw the montage only days before it aired. "I never realized that Whoopi wasn't in it — and she hosted two times for me! And Steve Martin's not in it, I now realize. I feel badly for him, too. It was just totally an oversight." Not that he's calling Martin with his mea culpa. "No, Steve's not that kind of guy." Cates is embarrassed "that anyone would think there was any reason that Whoopi wasn't included, except by accident. We did use a very major piece of her in the piece on [winning] supporting actors. She thanked me for calling, and... read more
  • Oscar Ratings Lay a Golden Egg; But Why? | Oscars Live Recap and News Blog | 2/25/2008
    Sunday night's presentation of the 80th Annual Academy Awards was watched by an average of 32 million total viewers — a 20 percent plunge from a year ago and, in fact, the Oscars' measliest ratings on record since Nielsen started tracking the event in 1974. Worst ever. Of all time.The ratings dive caps an awards season that kicked off last September with the least-watched Emmys in 17 years, then followed with strike-impaired presentations of the Globes, SAGs and Grammys.Why do you think the Oscars underperformed this year? Not enough traditional "blockbuster" fare in the running? The lingering effects of strike fatigue? Or did Gary Busey scare us all away? This interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times suggests that many Americans simply find the excess of glam and glitz irrelevant to their regular lives. —Matt Mitovich read more

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