THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
The Sked: Oscar Ratings — Not a Disaster — UPDATE
Based on the fast national ratings for Sunday, the Academy Awards telecast should average around a 13.4 rating with adults 18-49 (adjusting the preliminary 12.1 rating upward to account for the Pacific time zone seeing the show...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lincoln”
LINCOLN: Worth A Ticket – The West Wing, Civil War Edition In today’s Hollywood, there aren’t many directors whose names are trademarks. “A Martin Scorsese movie” doesn’t have the ...
The Oscars Ratings: Past 10 Years (Updated with Official Nationals)
UPDATE: In the official live+same day nationals for Sunday 2.26.2017, The Oscars averaged a 9.1 18-49 rating and 32.9 million viewers 2+, a modest +6% lift from the fast nationals. That is a record low 18-49 rating, and the...
THE BIJOU’S NEWS & NOTES: New Oscar Rules
> The Academy, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to fiddle once again with the Best Picture category. Instead of 5 nominees, as was the case pre-2009, or 10, as we’ve had the past 2 years, now no one will know jus...
The Sked: OSCAR SUNDAY Ratings
>The fast national ratings (100% of the country measured but the western time zones inaccurately counted) give last night’s Academy Awards a preliminary 10.2 rating with Adults 18-49 and 34.3 million viewers 2+. Now...
STATUETTE STAKES: NY Film Critics Kick Off Awards Season
> The New York Film Critics Circle famously (notoriously?), having decided that they simply couldn’t wait to announce their 2011 awards until, y’know, they had actually seen all the movies (when Warners couldn’...
SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCARS 2013 LIVE BLOG
Welcome to SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s Academy Awards live blog. Let’s take a moment to consider the world if America’s two great spectacles–the Super Bowl and the Oscars–swapped pre-event broadcasts....
STATUETTE STAKES: I’m First! No, I’M First!
> For many years, the National Board of Review has been the self-appointed first group on the calendar to announce awards for Best Picture and other categories. The NBR is sort of like the Golden Globes without super-powe...
SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: The WGA Nominations
The Writers Guild of America, it should quickly be noted, operates under very strict eligibility rules, only allowing awards to go to films produced under WGA or WGA-affiliated contracts. That disqualified a number of ...
CRITICS AWARDS: “Zero Dark” Fires the First Shot
Year-end awards from critics groups have two purposes in the big-picture (which is to say the Oscar) context. In the aggregate, if enough of the groups are in agreement to form a consensus, they can make an accolade se...
OSCARS MINUS 3: Second Choice
The odds-on favorite for this year’s Best Director Oscar can’t win. There’s little doubt at this point that if Ben Affleck had only been nominated for Best Director this year, he would have run away wit...
THE STATUETTE STAKES: AFI Fest Announces Titles
> Los Angelenos will have a chance to get advance looks at some of this year’s Oscar candidates at the AFI Film Festival, which begins in just about 2 weeks. Today the Festival announced the Gala and Special Screeni...