What if the story of this year's Best
Picture race changed from old (The King's Speech) vs. new (The Social Network) to crowd - pleasing royals (The King's Speech) vs. crowd - pleasing commoners (The Fighter)?
Not exact matches
The advance
picture of the mile - and - a-quarter
race has
changed drastically in six months.
In some respects, Netflix's current financial
picture recalls the dot - com era, when fast - growing firms
raced to
change the world using someone else's cash.
The preferential ballot for Best
Picture is not just an administrative
change; it has shifted the whole dynamic of the Oscar
race.
In case you haven't been studying at the Oscar
race for Best
Picture for the last 16 years as I have, you might not remember why the Academy
changed their rules in the first place.
Now that the New York Film Festival has
changed the conversation somewhat about the Best
Picture race, we're now headed into the AFI Film Festival, which has actually been known to dramatically shake up the Oscar
race in recent years.