2012 Oscars: How to fix a boring Academy Awards show for next year

Let’s cut right to the money shot here: The Oscar telecast needs help.

So here are 10 quick suggestions for how to create a better Oscar telecast in 2013:

Source:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2012-oscars-fix-2013-academy-awards-telecast-article-1.1029046

 

Oscar Pickers Look a Lot Like Tea Party Members

Who knew that voters for the Academy Awards are as white, old and male as members of the tea party?

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-oscar-pickers-20120220,0,7322799.story

 

Update: Academy confirms Murphy as Oscars host

The Academy Awards telecast certainly can’t go any lower than it did last year with the underwhelming co-hosting team of Anne Hathaway and James Franco.

Perhaps that’s why they’ve turned to comedy legend Eddie Murphy to lead the way.

Source:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/09/buzz-eddie-murphy-may-host-the-oscars-/1

 

Academy Awards Tweak Best Picture Rules; Will Nominate Between 5 & 10 Films

Surprise! During a meeting of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors on Tuesday night, it was decided that the Best Picture voting system would be changed to allow for anywhere from five to ten nominees in a given year, depending on the quality of films available.

The exact number of Best Picture participants wont be announced until the nominations are revealed in January.

Source:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/oscar-academy-builds-surprise-into-best-picture-race/

 

Ten people who should host the 2012 Oscars

Is it time to already begin thinking about next year’s Academy Awards show? Well, if you’re like most Americans — and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them — who watched last night’s show, then the answer is “yes.”

Source:
http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2011/02/ten_people_who_should_host_the_2012_oscars.php

 

The 9 Most Scathing Reviews of the 2011 Academy Awards

James Franco played a guy who cut off his own arm.

Why couldnt he play a guy who likes Anne Hathaway?

Source:
http://www.movieline.com/2011/02/the-9-most-scathing-reviews-of-the-2011-academy-awards.php

 

Seven Movies that Expose the “Real Hollywood”

The central myth propagated by the annual Academy Awards telecast is that Hollywood is one big happy family of mutually supportive artists in thrall to the sacred muse of inspiration.

You know better, and here are seven harsh beauties to blot out all those Oscar night air kisses. Don’t expect a happy ending.

Source:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/02/oscars_you_lie_7_movies_that_e.php