{"id":4266,"date":"2010-02-02T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:30:54","slug":"and-the-nominees-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/02\/and-the-nominees-are\/","title":{"rendered":"And the nominees are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4270 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/oscars-in-memoriam2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"oscars-in-memoriam\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The nominations for the <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/\">82nd Academy Awards <\/a>are in! \u00a0BU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/paul_schneider.shtml\">Paul Schneider<\/a>, Chairman of the College of Communication Department of Film &amp; Television and a member of the Directors Guild of America, shares his predictions for who may be going home with a statue on March 7th:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Academy seems to have achieved one of their goals, which was to get more commercially successful films into contention and, they hope, to increase interest and ratings.\u00a0 Based on best picture noms for Avatar, UP and The Blind Side, they have three of the top grossers of 2009. \u00a0This may provide a larger slice of the movie-going audience something to root for and a reason to tune in. Overall, this is quite a good, quality list and showcases a balance of genres and formats from intimate personal stories to huge action\/ special effect blockbusters, as well as an animated feature.\u00a0 There is something for everyone here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The best director nominations also have built-in drama.\u00a0 Ex husband and wife, James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow are both nominated. \u00a0Although the budgets of their two films, Avatar and The Hurt Locker are over $200 million apart, they both garnered nine nominations.\u00a0 When you add to the mix the fact that Kathryn Bigelow is a woman director working in a genre (war film \/action) that used to be considered a &#8216;man\u2019s game,&#8217; you have the ingredients for a very interesting evening.\u00a0 A win by Bigelow is certainly a\u00a0 real possibility. \u00a0I would be surprised if someone either than Cameron or Bigelow wins, even though the other nominees are worthy and deserving contenders.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal\">Contact Paul Schenider, 617-353-5031, <a href=\"paulsch@bu.edu\">paulsch@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards are in! \u00a0BU&#8217;s Paul Schneider, Chairman of the College of Communication Department of Film &amp; Television and a member of the Directors Guild of America, shares his predictions for who may be going home with a statue on March 7th: &#8220;The Academy seems to have achieved one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1349,198,2413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}