Welcome to the Wild Card Oscars: Do Films like “Anvil!” Have a Best Picture Shot?

This year, perhaps for the first time, a number of uber-indies have the chance to enter the vaunted ranks of Hollywood’s biggest promotional platform: Best Picture. Here’s my latest story for IFC.com, “Welcome to the Wild Card Oscars”: “If the new rule change presumably happened to help mainstream studio films make the Best Picture cut—the oft-cited example being last year’s slight of “The Dark Knight,” while early talk this year is circling “District 9” and “Avatar” as big-budget possibilities—the shift may inevitably favor indies, because studios are making fewer and fewer of the sorts of prestige movies that are typically Oscar fodder.”

anthony posted on October 12, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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