Feb

25

81st annual Academy Awards winners already announced!

By Brendon Lindsey

Talking with a friend of mine, we learned that the winner(s) for the 2009 Oscar’s have already been determined. It’s fairly obvious looking at the list, and I feel stupid for not having figured it out several months before.  The final winners for all of the categories for the 81st annual Academy Awards are:
Best Picture: […]

Feb

25

The winners and losers of the 80th annual Academy Awards

By Brendon Lindsey

I’ll admit it, I didn’t even know the Oscars were happening tonight. When you’ve dealt with them before, know people who have been there, and have been coerced into supporting the writers during the writer’s strike by ignoring any and all Oscar news things slip by. That being said, they did happen tonight. I didn’t […]

Feb

6

Oscar piracy stats and graphs

By Brendon Lindsey

Obviously, movies up for an Oscar are more likely to be pirated than say, oh, that Veggie Tales movie about vegetable pirates.
Over on Waxy.org, they’ve come up with two posts: the first a detailed spreadsheet of every Oscar nominated movie since 2003 including the first leak, the number/types of leaks and more; and the second […]

Jan

30

Academy to ONCE: “You know what, screw you after all.”

By Brendon Lindsey

According to the NYTimes, the Academy is “considering” removing ONCE’s song, “Falling Slowly,” from the best song category of the Oscars.
First off, screw the Oscars. I stand tall with my former writer brethren.
Secondly, what the hell, Academy? They claim it’s because the song isn’t “surely written” for Once since it appears on an album or […]