Dunno about you, but the day we put out asinine predictions like this (and we’re not even “Oscar bloggers,” obviously) we’re getting completely out of the game. Obviously senility has set in here. Shouldn’t he have to turn in his writing credentials for good?
Jeff Wells points out this:
I also shook my head when O’Neil posted a forecast by World Entertainment News Network’s Kevin Lewin about Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes looking like a Best Picture nominee.
Patrick Goldstein echoed my own dismay when he criticized Envelope/Gold Derby columnist Tom O’Neil on 11.2 for posting an anonymous Oscar voter’s opinion that This Is It, the Michael Jackson documentary, will grab an Oscar Best Picture nomination.
RIP, Tom O’Neil, though it is nice to officially take him off the list of people you barely took seriously in the first place.
Well, "Everyone is a critic", and to each their own, I say. As long as a person has seen the film that they are talking about for a nomination, their opinion is just as worthy as anyone else's. Have any of you seen "Sherlock Holmes"? It doesn't appear to me (at least from the trailers I've seen for the film) to be the kind of film that would garner awards attention, however, never judge a picture until you've seen it!
Tom O'Neil, though it is nice to officially take him off the list of people you barely took seriously in the first place.
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I can't agree more.
O'neil and Friedman think they are credible journalists. Really?
O'neil has always been awful..total DB too