LOS ANGELES - After three months of the film critics awards, audience awards and industry awards, Hollywood on Sunday finally get down to business to provide its Academy Awards, the world's top film honors awards.
But the rags-to-riches romance "Slumdog millionaire" widely expected to collect the Oscar for best film, suspense accounts surrounding glamorous affair has moved to whether the host, Hugh Jackman's can dazzle audiences and stop the slide in TV viewership.
Oscar producer Bill Condon and Laurence Mark "has been proven showmen who know how to package entertainment and Hugh Jackman knows how to sell it," said Tom O'Neil, columnist for awards Web site TheEnvelope.com.
It would be no small art piece by Oscar, which is given off from Beverly Hills-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, raise curtain on their 81 ceremony.
Expected inside Hollywood's Kodak Theater and outside on the fashionable red carpet is people like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, Meryl Streep and dozens of other stars.
In recent years, Comedians like Jon Stewart and Chris Rock hosting, heating volume before awards are distributed in more than 20 categories ranging from best movies and performances to make-up design, and even short films.
But viewership hit a record low of 32 million in 2008, down from 40 million in 2007. So the academy hired musical movie producers Condon and Mark ( "start") to shake up the show and they hired an actor and song-and-dance man Jackman, who thrilled audiences as the host of Broadway's Tony Awards.
Oscar and the film
Still, the biggest attraction for the Oscar show, and always end the film, actors and actresses will win the award in the center of the mystery has been the major Blockbuster films.
The most - when broadcast in 1998 saw the number 1 telecast ever hit delete "Titanic" 11 Academy Awards including Best Film away, with the left, and 55 million viewers in Tuned
This year, "Slumdog," which a poor, young Indian man for love and money on a TV game show competition has made the situation almost hit $ 150 million in global ticket sales from the shows.
Film actor, director, producer and industry groups including the authors of the award after winning, Slumdog "widely" milk, "gay activist Harvey Milk, and of Benjamin Button" in the curious case of the Penn-starrer, "with the best film to win "has chosen a man like that pit centuries backward.
The other two nominees "Frost / Nixon," by the British TV host David Frost of disgraced former U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic interview, as well as the drama "The Reader," Starring Kate Winslet are missing.
The best actor in a dull race two athletes "as the protagonist in" milk "and Mickey Rourke in the way of the battle between Penn seems." Rourke for best actor in the independent film world on Saturday raised the spirit of the award.
Winslet is tipped for best actress playing a German Nazi-era prison guard in "The Reader" over Meryl Streep as a nun who suspects sex abuse in a Catholic school in "Doubt".
Heath Ledger, who died in 2008 of an accidental prescription drug overdose, is favored for best supporting actor as the villain Joker in Batman movie "The Dark Knight."
Pundits say supporting actress is wide open with Penelope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" up for the Oscar against Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler," Taraji P. Henson for "Benjamin Button" and Viola Davis and Amy Adams, both in "Doubt."
Finally, fashionistas will be watching the gowns on the red carpet, and while experts say the recession has stars dressing down, they are quick to add the designs won't all be dull.
inforamtion form reuters.com
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