The 81st Annual Academy Awards, Most Important Yet?

[Octavio]

Originally Posted by foots

The same way someone can watch an Iron Man trailer three months before the movie is released and say it is going to be awesome. The same way people were stating as a fact the effect of a movie on a format war six plus months from its theatrical release date. The same way people are already soiling themselves at how great Transformers 2 is going to be despite history clearly showing that more than likely it will be far inferior to the first (The exceptions are a very very small %).

Why is box office buzz welcome and Oscar buzz a turn off?

Sorry but your comparison is quite lame. Basically you are saying that the reason why a movie is nominated for Best Picture is the huge propaganda machinery behind those movies, isn't? There is a lot of lobbying before the Oscars but it's not the same than a gazillion of dollars in publicity!

If that were true in the last edition of the Oscar Awards, "Atonement" "Michael Clayton" or "There Will Be Blood" wouldn't have been nominated, instead of those movies, Transformers, POTC At World's End or Spider-Man 3 would have been nominated.

Box Office buzz is based on figures, and they are somehow predictable, but Oscar nominees are based on "artistic merits" something that you CAN'T judge until you (and for BP nominations, the academy members) see ALL those movies from the start to the end.

Got it?