Sunday, February 17, 2008

Oscar best picuture is no sure thing

The Best Picture category for this years Academy Awards is wide open race there will more than likely come down to the wire on Feb. 24, the evening of the awards.

This could be the case because several reasons.

Hard-core marketing and lobbying for movies by their productions companies appears to be absent, the playing field is level when it comes to distribution of DVD for Oscar campaigns and the fact the quality of the nominees is so good that none them have consistently won in any of the previous awards shows.

Movie insiders think the "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" are favored but both film are very dark and violent which my divide the Academies voting demographic.

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