Next year's Academy Awards ceremony won’t take place at the end of February, but has instead moved to early March to avoid the end of the Winter Games. USA Today tells us the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony will air on March 7. The move is probably a temporary one, and the extra few weeks don’t make a real difference to us, but it did get me thinking: Aside from a date change, what else does the Academy Awards need in order to get more people interested in the ceremony?
This year was a fun one, with Hugh Jackman hosting and performing a couple of song-and-dance numbers alongside stars like Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Amanda Seyfried. Do we want more of that? Or were you happier with someone like Jon Stewart as host; a comedian who’ll take jabs at the nominees and keep us laughing for three hours? And what about those nominees – do you feel like the Academy ignores those films most popular with the moviegoing audience? For example, The Dark Knight was last year’s top grossing film, and yet it wasn’t nominated for Best Picture and its director, Christopher Nolan, wasn’t nominated for Best Director. Is that fair? Should the public have more of a say in what films get nominated, or is that dancing dangerously close to the People’s Choice Awards.
Are you happy with the Academy Awards as it is now, or do they need to change a whole bunch of things before you start watching again?
