Category Archives: Oscars
Are the Oscars Liberal or Conservative?
As I’ve written before, movies are not telegrams, neatly-packaged envelopes containing pithy messages. They’re more like Rorschach tests. So are the Oscars, and interpreting them as sending any kind of straightforward political message is a fool’s errand. Los Angeles Times … Continue reading
Milking the Oscars
I wouldn’t have thought that the way to raise the Oscar broadcast’s viewership was to make it more like the Tonys (the only awards ceremony even deeper in the ratings basement), but I’d have been wrong. As with the Tonys, … Continue reading
Filed under 2008 Election, Movies, Oscars, TV
Reading the Oscar Nominations
In the Academy’s eternal battle between whether to embrace commerce (and attract more viewers to the show by nominating big hit movies) or art (and maintain its somewhat compromised integrity but risk being branded as elitist and out of touch, … Continue reading
Gary Susman is an editor, writer, reporter, and critic. He has been a journalist in print and online for more than 20 years. He blogs daily for AOL's entertainment sites, including Moviefone, TV Squad, and PopEater. His work continues to appear in Entertainment Weekly, where he spent nearly eight years as Senior Writer. Other outlets have included MSNBC, People, the Village Voice, the Guardian, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Boston Phoenix, for which he has written since 1989. 
