Tag: Academy Awards
Another Ratings Disaster for the Oscars
The final numbers for the Oscars are in, and they’re being celebrated, but they’re still not good. Originally, the Oscars telecast got 18.1 million viewers, but now that views from mobile devices and personal computers have been factored in, the number has risen exponentially… to 19.7 million ...
Read MoreOscars Nominate Transgender Person as Best Actress
The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and for the most part, nobody seems to care. That’s par for the course these days, with the exception of last year, when they nominated Oppenheimer, a legitimately outstanding movie that people loved. (And even that wasn’t much of a bump.) As someo...
Read MoreRobert Downey Jr. Open to Playing Iron Man Again
Robert Downey Jr. is willing to save the mega-franchise he helped start. In an interview with Esquire (which was published today but was conducted partly in January and partly in the days after he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer), Downey was inevitably asked about Marvel and ...
Read MoreThe Boy and the Heron Coming Back to Cinemas
In light of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, The Boy and the Heron is returning to US theaters on March 22nd. The film will feature special added content like a foreword with composer Joe Hisaishi (who has composed most of Studio Ghibli’s oeuvre) and a drawing lesson with supervising...
Read MoreNerdrotic and The Critical Drinker Discussed the Oscars with Piers Morgan
The 199 is getting mainstream attention. Today, British broadcaster Piers Morgan had Gary from Nerdrotic and the Critical Drinker as guests on his YouTube show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, to discuss the Oscars with correspondent Ava Santina and commentator Esther Krakue, who were in the studio. The de...
Read MoreOscars So White Charges Reemerge After Best Actress Upset
Our betters are proving to be anything but again, at least by their own superficial standards. At last night’s Academy Awards (for which the ratings are not yet in – I believe those are usually revealed on the Tuesday after the ceremony – but I’ll assume most didn’t watch it), an upset occ...
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