Comments on: 81st Annual Academy Awards, Live Chat Sunday Night — Be Here! http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2009/02/20/81st-annual-academy-awards-live-chat-sunday-night-be-here/ The Oklahoman's George Lang Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Matt Price http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2009/02/20/81st-annual-academy-awards-live-chat-sunday-night-be-here/comment-page-1/#comment-9158 Matt Price Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:29:29 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2009/02/20/81st-annual-academy-awards-live-chat-sunday-night-be-here/#comment-9158 I’ll join George around 8, if all goes to plan, and see if I can’t come up with a few cogent comments. Before watching the Oscars, I suggest everybody read this:

http://www.film.com/features/story/dark-knight-snub-unforgivable-because/25665649

which I think does a nice job of pointing out exactly how screwy nominating “The Reader” instead of “The Dark Knight” was, and makes some cogent arguments that the Academy is no longer particularly beholden to honoring either critical favorites or commercial successes.

- Matt

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