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...Oscar host on Sunday night will be a man most folks watching will never have laid eyes on. Not that Jon Stewart is fazed. As the anchor of Comedy Central?s The Daily Show told USA Today two weeks ago: "If you?re going to go with films that not a lot of people have seen, you might as well go with a host that not a lot of people have seen. You know what? Let?s turn the whole damn thing into the Independent Spirit Awards...
...five major finalists are part of an off-Hollywood, almost an anti-Hollywood, light years removed from the pictures the moguls really wants to make: the moneymakers. Are the box office winners and the Oscar nominees even members of the same family? Yes, both are children of the movie industry; but they?re siblings without much in common. The Narnias and Wedding Crasherses are the son who got rich as a corporate lawyer, and the Capotes and Good Nights are the daughter who quit graduate school to become an inner-city social worker...
...which means that this Sunday?s ceremony is the Charlie Rose Oscar Night. It also makes this the toughest Oscar ballot in ages...
...True Oscar scholars - and admit it, people, there are millions of you, filling out your office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning your expertise on movies most of you haven?t seen - are as meticulous and obsessive as Talmudists or sabermetricians. You pore over past winners for clues to this year?s. You know that the trick is to find the leading indicators, the stats that transcend the conventional wisdom to become the actual, factual wisdom...
...icky for some folks. Not that the pileup of animosities and implausibilities in Crash is easy to take, but that movie?s excesses got audiences, whether they liked it or hated it, talking far into the night. That gave the film the patina of Importance, another preferred word around Oscar time. Is Crash provocative, reckless, incendiary? So were The Deer Hunter and Platoon, and they both won Best Picture. Brokeback was a film that many revered, many loved. But you couldn?t love it, or vote for it, if you were afraid...