THE ACADEMY ANNOUNCES ITS LIST OF NEW VOTERS

As if expanding the Best Picture nominee pool and potentially nixing the Best Song category wasn’t enough to modernize the usually staid Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, surely its welcoming of cinema’s preeminent bong jokesters is. Rogen and Franco are two of 134 new artists and movie industry executives who have been extended invitations to join the Academy and, in doing so, secure voting rights for all future Oscar ceremonies beginning in 2010. (more…)

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