it is a tv show after all….so who cares if its a tv guy or a movie person

I also think the show is at the end of the day a TV show, we don’t go to a movie theater to see the awards show. I don’t have a problem with people primarily known for their TV work hosting a TV show.

perhaps the lack of a crowd award show season will help this year. There have been no real movie awards on network TV yet this season. The Globes and People’s choice were unwatchable this year without celebrity star power and red carpet glamor.

a) they’re meaningless
b) it’s a party where people congratulate themselves
c) booooring
d) they’re meaningless
e) I usually don’t care about the hosts
f) they’re meaningless

A lot of have people have seen NCFOM, no it’s it not a blockbuster, but it has made just as much money if not more than the majority of most of the other Oscar nominees over the past years.

To say that No one watches Juno when the movie has made more money than Cloverfield is absurd. And I believe it didn’t take very long to do it either.

I’m surprised that you don’t think nominating a black man for our presidential nominee for the first time in history might not have something to do with people not talking about the oscars much.

And the fact that the race itself is history seeing as a woman and a black man are going head to head for the nomination.

Don’t worry, people will tune in.

it may fluctuate a few million here and there (last years ..the um…ellen show was a million up from the year before) but the titanic show in 1998 with 55 million was the highest rated show since 1983!

and no oscar show since that night has gotten that many viewers again…

I think its award show fatigue…there are so many shows now and the general public just don’t really care….

like brian said…it does about as well as american idol…which is a gigantic mega hit of a show so its not like no one is watching but the oscars do not hold the same allure as they used to.

and as for winners…I have a feeling no country may have peaked too early..all the currewnt heat is on there will be blood…i still the coens have it in the bag due to they whole “it’s their time” kinds of thing…time for them to get their dues but TWBB is certainly the fucking film of peoples choice at the moment.

who knows…maybe they will want to reward juno for making so much money with a budget of under ten million. i mean the studios will be looking to replicate that now….that is a better business model for them than spending 300 million and waiting for dvd sales to make a profit.

if they do reward juno i think it will be with screenplay and I also think ellen page is going to win best actress. its all been la vie en rose till now but she is the industry darling and I have a feeling its going to her.

for me its the best line up of films nominated in years. i don’t really disagree with any of them..I was surprised that clayton got so many nods in the big catagories….its a very good film but i didn;t think it would be right up there.

although how joe wright missed out on director for atonement is beyond me..more so than best picture he deserved the nod for that tracking shot on the beach alone.

anyway…we will see

But those numbers are deciving. They have not continued to go down all that time. As a matter of fact, they’ve gone up and down consistently, and the year those ratings were that high was the year Titanic won best picture, and had more people see it than any other in history at that point.

You said:

“why people avoid the oscars in droves”

Considering it’s the second highest rated show of the year, I don’t think it’s quite fair to say that.

$30,975,900 – There Will Be Blood
+$60,925,778 – No Country for Old Men
+$47,453,273 – Atonement
+$47,500,409 – Michael Clayton
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$186,855,360