Little Gold Bits

Cinematical’s Erik Childress asks the question, would Shutter Island have been one of the ten if it had been released in 2009?

The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg talks about the preferential balloting, Jim Cameron’s blockbuster and various other things in his column, And the Oscar Goes To…

Ebert talks to Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese.

Vulture helps Walter Kirn explain why he felt badly, and subsequently tweeted his disappointment, at not being invited to the Oscars: “I have a book out there to sell, and quite frankly, I’ve got a family to support. People vastly overestimate the amount you get paid when your novel becomes a movie, and for me to go to the Oscars would have been good publicity.”

Jack Matthews mourns the later Oscar date.