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...Oscar eve this year, as it has for each of the last 22, the red carpet at Film Independent's Spirit Awards ceremony, sometimes referred to as the Indie Academy Awards, leads to a beachfront tent full of celebs in their best dressy casual, sharing cocktails and off-color jokes and honoring movies made for budgets slightly less than the cost of the jewels Fred Leighton will loan out to Oscar hopefuls the next morning...
...here," the comic said, "There would be no one left to make a documentary about it." A lot of Santa Monica, Calif., sun shone down on the dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which won Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin - who's also nominated for an Oscar - Best Director for the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and best first screenplay for Michael Arndt...
This weekend's Best Picture contender Little Miss Sunshine was the indie miracle of 2006, the quirky, come-from-nowhere comedy that became one of the biggest hits of the year and a possible Oscar champ. Too bad you can't say the same for Zyzzyx Road, another small 2006 indie that hit the record books for another reason entirely - after a single week's showing in a quiet Dallas movie house, it became the lowest-grossing film ever released, at least since modern record-keeping began...
When I heard that Ellen DeGeneres was going to host the Oscars, I thought, They're sure playing it safe. In 2005 and 2006 the Academy went edgy--well, Oscar edgy--with hosts Chris Rock and Jon Stewart. This year they got likable Ellen, Finding Nemo Ellen, good-natured, dancing Ellen...
...specifically, for lesbians. One reason DeGeneres will be onstage Feb. 25 is that lesbians are women, and women increasingly define the pop-culture mainstream. Men, especially young men, have been seceding from mass media to cable, video games and the Internet. The last two Oscars hired Rock and Stewart, with their young-male followings, but the audience still declined. It's women who make TV hits today--Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, even CSI--and women who will keep Oscar alive...