24 June 2009

5 More!!

So The Academy has added five more nominees to the Best Picture Award.

This is great news. There many years when I have agreed with the winner, let alone the five nominees, so hopefully this will open things up a little bit. Maybe we'll see some foreign, animated and documentary films being nominated. Either way, it's a surefire way to ensure that the Academy Awards mean something again.



So since I'm a giant film dork, I'm going to write a megapost about what the Oscars should have been, starting Monday.


Get excited.


In the mean time...

2 comments:

The Miz said...

Do you think they'll open it up to foreign and indie films or do you think it'll let in things like...oh Confessions of a Shopaholic?

Jim Eustice said...

I think this only works against people who give a shit what other people think of the things he enjoys.

Full disclosure: CoaS was a good romantic comedy. Isla Fisher is pretty enough to pass for a fashionista and funny enough to carry the movie. It falls prey to cliche in the final act, but hey...I never said it was a perfect movie. Very good cast of very funny people. It even subversively hints at the very real harm addiction inflicts upon secondary victims.

I'd give it a solid C+.


Try again next time, sugar.