Making Oscar Night Interesting (Again)
Well, No Country for Old Men continues to steamroll the competition in the race for Oscar. This weekend’s Producer’s Guild of America win means it has officially won top prize from every guild. Even The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King didn’t do that. (The Peter Jackson fantasy epic lost the WGA Adapted Screenplay prize to American Splendor).
While No Country for Old Men deserves every award it gets, the season is quickly becoming very boring. Is anyone even hearing a hint of dissension in the Oscar race? Well, I recently wrote an article for BlogCritics.org on how Oscar night can be interesting again. You can check it out here. It’s a quiet acknowledgment that the Oscars aren’t supposed to award the best in film. The Oscars are all about show business. When Crash won Best Picture, it was shocking and even if the film wasn’t any good. I’d much rather experience a jaw-drop than a yawn. So, Academy, I urge you to make my jaw hit the floor.
Unless that means giving the Oscar to a disaster like Atonement.
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