My friend Marshall found this old article from 2001, believe it or not. 2001 seems like an eternity ago for so many reasons. 1) Because the world changed full stop. And 2) My world changed. Full stop. I never did appear on the Oscar Pre-Show, but I was featured on Ebert and Roeper thanks to Michaela Perreira who was doing a tech segment for them. It was one of the coolest things anyone has ever done for me. My site was then later listed as a source in one of Roeper’s books. And that’s as far as my six degrees of separation to Roger Ebert go.
Sasha Stone To Appear On Oscar Pre-Show
Mirror film critic Sasha Stone will be featured as part of the “Internet and the Oscars” segment on KABC’s Academy Awards pre-show telecast, Sunday, March 25. Hosted by Roger Ebert, the broadcast is syndicated nationally and internationally as the official Oscar pre-show.
Stone will speak as Editor-in-Chief of OscarWatch.com, an online Academy Awards analysis and prediction magazine that she created in 1999. The site, which was recently redesigned by Venice internet consultant Joshua Avedon, features Oscar buzz, “insider” information, analysis of behind-the-scenes campaigning, and discussions of other factors that contribute to who takes home the coveted golden boy each year. The OscarWatch Forums, in which movie fans from Chile to Slovakia to Zimbabwe argue the merits of their favorite films, prove once again the worldwide fascination with the Hollywood Movie.
Stone updates the site daily, and shares her own insights in the “Ed Sez” column. OscarWatch was featured as one of the top three Academy Awards-related websites on “Ebert and Roeper at the Movies” earlier this year. To read Stone on the Oscar race, see this page, and visit www.oscarwatch.com.
Sasha,
Your comments on the DGA not nominating the Coen Brothers is to say the least an opinion without much foundation. Check your facts when the others films were released, some much earlier in the year, that could have been forgotten, none of these arguments are important. Ultimately best picture is really for the uninformed uneducated and simple minded pundits who truly don’t understand films. It’s a subjective art form, there is no best, every film effects every individual in a different way. We make films for many reasons, the least being for some type of reward.
HB
A little defensive are we? So you’re either someone who worked on The Fighter or a fan of The Fighter? I am feeling the momentum of True Grit right now. Yes, of the two movies it is my preference. I figured Danny Boyle or David O. Russell might have been nominated as well. I have underestimated The Fighter because it isn’t my favorite film this year – Winter’s Bone is better and that wasn’t even nominated for the DGA. I am of the mind that O. Russell will make the final Oscar cut, however. I find it interesting, though, that in making your argument you must insult the person you are trying to convince of something. Really? You can do better than that. Rise above it. It is beneath you and anyone else who cares about movies.