Last year, the Academy Awards wanted to attract a broader and younger audience. Unfortunately, they did not go with my suggestion of adding new categories that "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" would be sure to win. That would have definitely attracted the Twi-hard tween crowd, whom advertisers everywhere are trying to get their greedy paws on.
Instead, the Academy went with adding 10 movies to the Best Picture category, which allowed more populist films to be included; and they made James Franco and Anne Hathaway the hosts. We can all agree both choices were disasters, right? Younger viewers didn't care if "Toy Story 3" was nominated for Best Picture. It already had "Best Animated Feature" locked up anyway. And they especially didn't care if "127 Hours" was nominated. Plus, the Hathaway-Franco hosting combo made us all want to cut our arms off with a pocket knife, just to distract from the pain in our ears.
Instead, the Academy went with adding 10 movies to the Best Picture category, which allowed more populist films to be included; and they made James Franco and Anne Hathaway the hosts. We can all agree both choices were disasters, right? Younger viewers didn't care if "Toy Story 3" was nominated for Best Picture. It already had "Best Animated Feature" locked up anyway. And they especially didn't care if "127 Hours" was nominated. Plus, the Hathaway-Franco hosting combo made us all want to cut our arms off with a pocket knife, just to distract from the pain in our ears.
- 2/22/2012
- by Ryan McKee
- NextMovie
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