Thursday, August 26, 2010

Oscar's Honors and Potential Shake-Ups


Some Oscar news as of late. The list of this upcoming year's recipients of the Honorary Academy Awards has been announced. The three are: Eli Wallach, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jean Luc Godard.

Wallach did not surprise me at all, he is the typical kind of actor that receives these sort of awards. An actor that has never won an Oscar, but an actor who is highly respected by his peers as one of the finest character actors the cinema has ever seen. Where as I'm not really feeling as if Coppola fits into the mold of who the Academy tends to honor with these awards, the guy is a legend in the entertainment biz, and many of his movies are still cultural milestones to this day. So I guess this award will sit next to his other Oscars. As for the last one, it was sort of surprising, but not all that baffling. French director Jean Luc Godard was one of the guiding hands of the French New Wave, and I bet if you ask most film school students who their favorite director is, they'd say him. While I've never been a Godard fan, he is a highly respected director in and out of the industry. In a way his award win is akin to when Akira Kurosawa won the honorary Oscar. Like Kurosawa, Godard is foreign and has never won an Oscar, though most would say he probably should have.

As for other Oscar news, there is a potential shakeup coming to the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony. Almost every year I've watched the Oscars, they have fallen on Sunday night, and I like that. Sunday is always a day of rest around my house,where I usually have nothing going on on Sunday nights, and so it's always good to sit back, relax, and just watch the Oscars. Word is though that the NFL is wanting to add two more games to their regular season schedules. What this would do is delay the Super Bowl two more weeks, which means that the Oscars and the Super Bowl would both collide on the same Sunday. And if that happens, rather than delaying the Oscars till March, the buzz is they'll move it to the Monday night after the Super Bowl.

Supposedly the Oscars were held on Monday nights all up until 12 years ago, but seeing as how I eight then, I didn't care. Personally, I hate the idea of the Oscars having to leave their common perch for the NFL. Sunday night is a way better night than Monday for most. If it's on Monday night, the probability of people possibly missing the ceremony is so much higher. It's more probable they'll have class, work, or some other commitment that they can't get out of. But it just really frustrates me that the NFL doesn't seem to care, all they see is the money that adding two more games a season will create in ticket sales and air time. Stupid entertainment politics could ruin a good Oscar tradition for me.

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