The afternoon before the 80th annual Academy Awards, three movie experts visited the WNRN studios for the Wake-Up Call’s annual Oscars show. Ben Nuckols and Tom Dumontier (two films reviewers for WNRN), and Adam Greenbaum (the owner of an independent movie theater) discussed their predictions for winners, and delved into what types of movies tend to get nominated and win. They also talked about how the recent writers’ strike has affected the Academy Awards – will this be a laugh-out-loud night to remember, or a quickly thrown-together mess?
Give your own predictions for the winners, by commenting after the podcast!
You can watch the 80th Annual Academy Awards at 8:30PM tonight on ABC.
I will likely watch this with my wife, but it will be the first year where I’ve not seen any of the movies. I could only vaguely tell you the plots of them, but that’s about it. Having said that, I have a feeling Juno will win because of the relatively lighter subject matter. In a depressing year, people want to feel a little better about things, I think. Enough of the doom and gloom.
I will only be watching to see how Jon Stewart did.