2008 Woodie Awards
The 80th Oscar Awards will go on
Lauren Sampson
Issue date: 2/21/08 Section: A & E
As a result of the writer's strike, many speculated that the 2008 Academy Awards would not be held this year, seeing as the Golden Globes were not.
On Feb. 14, the Academy president, Sid Ganis, already had his mind set on following through with the awards ceremony.
The assertiveness in Ganis' voice made it clear that the only thing that could possibly cancel the Oscar's this year would be natural disaster or even war.
"I think that surely up until the last minute settlement of the writers' strike the Oscar 'event' was in jeopardy. I think there was a collective sigh of relief as soon as it became clear that the way was cleared for a full celebration," said Media Studies professor Sid Gottlieb.
"There's a lot at stake, commercially, Oscar winners also win at the box office and psychologically, the event is a time for much self-congratulation."
This year, it is really going to be crunch time for preparations leading up to the big event, which will be airing live on Feb. 24 with Jon Stewart hosting for the second time.
"I'm really looking forward to watching this year's awards, not only to see who is going to win in each category, but because the last year that Jon [Stewart] hosted, he was really entertaining, even if his humor wasn't understood by everyone," said senior Chris Baldi.
The performers have been announced for this year's celebration and they are as follows: firstly, the major actor/actress roll winners from 2007 which include Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren, and Forest Whitaker.
A few of the 27 other presenters joining Arkin, Hudson, Mirren and Whitaker on stage will be Jessica Alba, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway and Katherine Heigl.
Music from the new romantic "fairy-tale" film, "Enchanted," seems to be stealing the show this year during performances.
Amy Adams will be singing "Happy Working Song," Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders will perform a duet with "That's How You Know," and Jon McLaughlin will perform "So Close," all from "Enchanted."
"'Enchanted' was an adorable movie, and the music from it just added to the fairy-tale style that the story-line followed. All of the music reminds me very much of a modern day Cinderella story," said sophomore Ashley Greene.
Along with music from "Enchanted", which was nominated for three Oscars, audiences will also hear a song from two other nominated films, "Once" and "August Rush."
"I think it is a long shot compared to the other films up for Best Picture, but I would love for "Juno" to win. I think it has more of the younger generation vote, and so it probably won't win, but it would be great to see an Indie-film go out there and end up on top," said sophomore George Miata.
On Feb. 14, the Academy president, Sid Ganis, already had his mind set on following through with the awards ceremony.
The assertiveness in Ganis' voice made it clear that the only thing that could possibly cancel the Oscar's this year would be natural disaster or even war.
"I think that surely up until the last minute settlement of the writers' strike the Oscar 'event' was in jeopardy. I think there was a collective sigh of relief as soon as it became clear that the way was cleared for a full celebration," said Media Studies professor Sid Gottlieb.
"There's a lot at stake, commercially, Oscar winners also win at the box office and psychologically, the event is a time for much self-congratulation."
This year, it is really going to be crunch time for preparations leading up to the big event, which will be airing live on Feb. 24 with Jon Stewart hosting for the second time.
"I'm really looking forward to watching this year's awards, not only to see who is going to win in each category, but because the last year that Jon [Stewart] hosted, he was really entertaining, even if his humor wasn't understood by everyone," said senior Chris Baldi.
The performers have been announced for this year's celebration and they are as follows: firstly, the major actor/actress roll winners from 2007 which include Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren, and Forest Whitaker.
A few of the 27 other presenters joining Arkin, Hudson, Mirren and Whitaker on stage will be Jessica Alba, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway and Katherine Heigl.
Music from the new romantic "fairy-tale" film, "Enchanted," seems to be stealing the show this year during performances.
Amy Adams will be singing "Happy Working Song," Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders will perform a duet with "That's How You Know," and Jon McLaughlin will perform "So Close," all from "Enchanted."
"'Enchanted' was an adorable movie, and the music from it just added to the fairy-tale style that the story-line followed. All of the music reminds me very much of a modern day Cinderella story," said sophomore Ashley Greene.
Along with music from "Enchanted", which was nominated for three Oscars, audiences will also hear a song from two other nominated films, "Once" and "August Rush."
"I think it is a long shot compared to the other films up for Best Picture, but I would love for "Juno" to win. I think it has more of the younger generation vote, and so it probably won't win, but it would be great to see an Indie-film go out there and end up on top," said sophomore George Miata.
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