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February 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The show annually is the second most-watched program on US TV behind
professional football’s Super Bowl, but this year’s Grammy Awards, music’s
top honours, lured 40 million viewers the night after Whitney Houston’s
death and could easily surpass the Oscars, which only twice since 2002 has
had a larger audience.
Oscar producers also hope a return of popular comedian Crystal as host of the
programme for the ninth time will lure viewers. He has not been emcee of the
show since 2004 when it drew roughly 44 million viewers and box office smash “The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” was the big winner.
This year “The Artist,” a tale of old Hollywood that sees a fading
star find redemption through the love of a woman just as silent movies are
being taken over by talkies, is widely picked to take home best film by most
industry pundits.
It comes into the night with 10 nominations, second only to Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo”
with 11. But most of the nods for “Hugo” are in technical
categories like cinematography, whereas “The Artist” nominations
are spread across several categories.
While it faces keen competition from civil rights drama “The Help,” “The
Artist” has come out on top in most award shows this year. Still,
pundits point out that “The Help” did win best ensemble cast from
the Screen Actors Guild, and actors make up the biggest group of Oscar
voters.
The third film that has had Hollywood buzzing this season is family drama “The
Descendants,” starring George Clooney as a man trying to keep his
family together after his cheating wife is admitted to hospital in a coma.
But “Descendants” has failed to spark Oscar voters, and its key
win is seen as adapted screenplay.
The category of best actress features a too-close-to-call race between Viola
Davis playing a maid in “The Help” and Meryl Streep as former
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” Tom
O’Neil of awards website Goldderby.com calls that race “neck and neck.”
The best actor category sees American Clooney “Descendants” face
Frenchman Jean Dujardin, star of “The Artist.” For a long time,
Clooney seemed to have the upper hand, but Dujardin has won most every time
the two have been pitted against each other.
Supporting actor and actress appear locked for Christopher Plummer, playing an
elderly gay man in “Beginners,” and Octavia Spencer as one of the
black maids in “The Help.”
At age 82, Plummer would be the oldest Oscar winner ever, and if both Spencer
and Davis are victorious, then it would be the first time two African
American women have won those categories in the same year for the same movie.
The race for director is widely tipped to go to “The Artist” maker
Michel Hazanavicius, but could see a surprise by “Hugo” and
Scorsese, Woody Allen with “Midnight in Paris” or Alexander Payne
and “The Descendants.”
Finally, Iranian film “A Separation” goes up against Israel’s “Footnote”
in the category for foreign language film, bringing world politics into the
movie industry awards.
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