Oscar Ratings Tanked (I'm So Not Surprised)

[NashVegas]

#1 - little pre-show hyping due to writers' strike

#2 - As much as I LOVED TWBB this Reuters' story first line says it all: "Films about psychopaths, greedy oilmen and corrupt lawyers failed to click with moviegoers."

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2521078720080226


Hollywood needs to start promoting good movies that have great cross-appeal and stop balkanizing its demos and its culture the way the radio and record businesses did.

[SoCalDem]

1. How to save the oscars?

make it a ONE hour show..

Just the awards people are interested in ..

actor
actress
supporting actor
supporting actress
Movie
song


Other than the people's agents & families, no one else gives a crap who did the costumes or wrote the screenplay adapted from a comic book or whatever..

most people don't care what foreign language documentary was best
....

start the show with a song montage..and show about 5 minutes of each movie..

and end it..

the ceremony could go on, for the people who actually go there, but as for televising it....end it at one hour..

[NashVegas]

2. There's One Thing

To think about. This year's show was a total snooze. On the other hand, remember when Priscilla, Queen of the Desert won an award - it was either for art direction or costumes - and the lady who won came up to the dais in a dress made out of American Express cards? That was a super cool thing the starlets would have been terrified to do.

I wouldn't want to do away entirely with the technical awards, but they sure could have gotten through them sooner. Enough montages!

[RubyDuby in GA]

9. I remember that dress and still tell people about it to this day!

It was awesome! As was the movie. I just made the hubby watch it about a month ago. :)

[NashVegas]

13. Found a Pic

[RubyDuby in GA]

21. It's almost as good as the flip flop dress from the movie itself!

[mondo joe]

11. Yes!! I remember watching the Oscars to see what Cher or Geena Davis would wear, or what Susan

Sarandon would say. Now it's so blah blah, and everyone trying to not end up on some Worst Dressed list.

[NashVegas]

12. Give Me Bjork in a Swan Dress

And I'm so there!

Heck, even a J.Lo nipple alert would be preferable.

Fire the stylists.

When you watch the Cannes awards ceremony on cable, the difference in dress is startling. Not so many of the little princesses you see on our show.

[underpants]

4. More of this can only help

Actress Katherine Heigl presents the Oscar for best makeup during the 80th annual Academy Awards, the Oscars, in Hollywood February 24,

[grace0418]

7. I think some of the lesser awards generally bring out the most interesting surprises.

The best reactions, the most interesting people, the funniest moments.

And I loved watching Diablo Cody win for best screenplay. One of my favorite moment of the night after Glen and Marketa winning for "Falling Slowly".

[Mike Daniels]

8. What you said should be applied for any industry awards show

The shows are bloated to 3+ hours with a lot of self-congratulatory clap-trap presented as tributes/montages.


The general viewing public doesn't care about industry-specific awards such as "best engineered recording", "best stage design" and yet the front end of the shows are loaded with these awards forcing the viewer to sit through a bunch of stuff they don't care (and will never care about) to get to the glamour awards (actor, actress, song of the year, artist of the year, etc).

The academies that present the awards need to realize that You Tube, DVR and 200+ channels on cable (some of which specialize in edited recaps of programs) have irreversibly changed the way people consume entertainment. Through these and other forms of technology, people can easily view just the parts they care about without sitting through the whole.

With people increasingly streaming entertainment off the internet, perhaps that's the avenue the academies need to pursue if they wish to keep up the bloated length of these programs. Front load the program with the awards most people want to tune in to see and then shift the program over to the net where those who want to watch the smaller and more techincal awards can do so.

[Missy Vixen]

20. If there were no screenplay writers, there would be no movies

Just throwing that one out there.

I realize the screenwriters aren't celebrities, but their creativity and talent should be recognized.

Julie

[Richardo]

3. They say that every year

Shouldn't it be around zero by now?

[joeybee12]

5. It's like Miss America...in many ways a relic of the past...

...there's no mystery about celebrities and Hollywood anymore when we see EVERYTHING they do.

[MissMillie]

6. it's on too late

and yeah, I know it's pretty early in Hollywood when it starts, but I just can't stay up until 11:30 on a Sunday anymore.

[DS1]

10. Drop the songs

I've never ever liked a song performance at an awards show. Not Billy Crystal, not any montages, none of them.

[Blue_Tires]

14. not to mention the fact that the winner selection can be weird sometimes

and makes everyone say WTF??

i mean honestly...Bardem? did he have a total of 10 lines in that entire movie?

[GCP]

15. Even Jon Stewart couldn't rescue this piece of dreck

I watched it for 3 hrs and then gave up - it had to be the most boring Oscars show ever.
And yes, please drop the songs, they're always horrendous and a huge waste of time.
One hour show,
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Bets Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Finished, done.

[npk]

16. Disappointed Michael Moore didn't win

That was the only reason I tuned in was to see him win and give his acceptance speech.

[GCP]

17. Welcome to DU!

:hi: :toast:

[LynneSin]

18. I was too but the winner was on our team

That was about torture in Afghanistan that won

[npk]

19. thank you n/t