Almost nothing we do makes a profit except for the awards show. |
Any ballots received after 5:00 pm will not be counted or taken into account for the Oscars. |
I don't think there was any pressure from another country. |
I have no idea what plans E! has on Oscar night. If they're suggesting they would do something similar on our red carpet, we would have some good discussions with them. I can predict we would be extraordinarily angry if that happened on our carpet. I cannot predict what we would do afterwards. |
I think it's going to keep getting bigger. I don't now how the phone companies are going to react. It doesn't make any sense for consumers to pay for something they can get for free, |
It's a major construction job for a huge event with a lot of things being built including a very heavy bridge over Hollywood Boulevard, so we need time to do it. |
Not gonna happen. It would be physically impossible to happen between now and Sunday and, beyond that, we're not going to disqualify films because some people don't like the content. |
The quality is great if you have a headset, especially if both parties have a broadband connection, |
The quality is great if you have a headset, especially if both parties have a broadband connection. |
We are also trying to fight the rain. We have to put a contingency plan to cover the red carpet in place if it's going to rain. It's a big job. |
We are looking forward to going back to where the whole thing started. In a sense, it will be an exciting return to yesteryear, but it also brings the awards to a theater that has been specifically designed to make the show exciting for the audience in the theater as well as a brilliant television program. |
We have several areas that we accept films from that are not specifically delineated as countries but have been accepted over the years, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Puerto Rico. |
We made a lot of progress. But it was time to move on and let someone else pick up where I left off. |