Recall the Gold Ballot: Hollywood Re-Votes on the Oscars

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'Recall the Gold': Re-voting past Oscar races, starting with the Best Picture of 1998
Published 10/6/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
'Recall the Gold': Re-voting past Oscar races, starting with the Best Picture of 1998 What's the biggest Oscar upset of the last quarter century? It may be the victory of Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan as the Best Picture of 1998. Looking back with the perspective of time, would that race play out the same way if it could be voted on today? EW is asking that question and others like it via our enormous survey campaign, called " Recall the Gold ." As of today, we're sending out ballots to 7,000 film industry professionals (many of them Academy members), asking ...

Re-Voting on the Oscars -- Is Nothing Sacred?
Published 10/7/2008 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
... Entertainment Weekly, that paragon of journalistic integrity that was originally conceived as the fast food of showbiz journalism, has taken it upon itself to rethink past Oscarswith a bootleg survey of Oscar voters and their particular likes. ...

Entertainment Weekly's 'Recall the Gold' Project
Published 10/7/2008 at OH NO!!
... Film industry insiders will vote in six major categories: Best Picture, Directing, Actor in a Leading Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role and Actress in a Supporting Role. The ballot focuses on five different years: 2003, 1998, 1993, 1988 and 1983 (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years ago.) Ballots must be returned in the self-addressed, stamped envelope included with the ballot no later than Nov.1, 2008. EW will publish the results in January 2009. Source Do you think this is a good idea? Discuss your most memorable Oscar upsets in the ...

'Recall the Gold': 1983 Best Supporting Actress Oscar race
Published 10/9/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
'Recall the Gold': 1983 Best Supporting Actress Oscar race Today edition of " Recall the Gold " finds us revisiting the 1983 race for Best Supporting Actress. The somewhat controversial winner was Linda Hunt, who might just as easily have entered the Best Supporting Actor race. In The Year of Living Dangerously , she played a man, photographer Billy Kwan, and played the role straight, without any hint of camp or gender-bending. Not only was it a great performance, but as a stunt, it was hard to top, even for Glenn Close in the popular The Big Chill (she played Kevin Kline's ...

Entertainment Weekly Wants to “Recall The Gold” from Undeserving Oscar Winners
Published 10/9/2008 by Sean at Film Junk
... The magazine has started a project called Recall The Gold, sending out a massive survey to the Hollywood elite asking for them to re-evaluate previous winners. They plan to publish the results in January, but in the meantime, they are running features twice a week in the ...