Am I the only one who thinks that more than 5 people going to see a film in a theater seems to disqualify it from Oscar contention? Sure, commercially successful films get a few token nominations, but for the most part Oscar nominations always seem to be dominated by films that normal people have never even heard of, let alone gone to see. That having been said, why is the Oscar broadcast so darn popular? If you haven’t seen any of these movies, and the box office numbers make it pretty clear that nobody has, why watch a 4-hour broadcast honoring movies that you didn’t care enough to buy a ticket for? It’s a question I ask myself every year as I sit watching the awards being handed out to movies that I have never seen. Maybe if we all stopped tuning in to the broadcast somebody might get the message that it may be time to start honoring more mainstream movies.

¶ 2/12/2003 06:14:00 PM

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