Oscars: 82nd annual awards show to air March 7
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The Oscars will be presented a little later next year.
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on March 7 to avoid coinciding with the Winter Olympics, said Leslie Unger, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The 2010 Winter Games are scheduled Feb. 12-28.
This year's Oscars telecast, hosted by Hugh Jackman, aired Feb. 22.
For many years, until 2004, the awards ceremony was held at the end of March.
"It has been in February since then, except for one year, in 2006, where the circumstances were the same as next year, to not coincide with the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics," Unger said Wednesday.
Nominations ballots will be mailed to members Dec. 28 and nominations polls will close Jan. 23.
Nominations will be announced Feb. 2.
"In terms of the nominating process, that puts another week in the schedule for members to see movies," Unger said.
CBC plans to cut 800 jobs
Even after selling off assets valued at $125 million, the CBC will have to eliminate 800 jobs from the start of summer through September to make its target of $171 million in budget cutbacks, the national broadcaster’s president Hubert Lacroix told employees at a town hall meeting in Montreal this morning.
“These are tough times for the public broadcaster,” Lacroix said. “The changes are significant and it will take time to talk them through.
“We need $171 million to balance our budget, which will mean 800 positions.”
Assuming the federal government approves the sales of assets and allows the CBC to keep the proceeds, balancing the budget “still results in (the loss of) 800 positions,” Lacroix said.
In addition, senior managers’ take-home pay will be cut by 20 per cent, through reduced bonuses, and corporate salaries will be rolled back by 5 per cent.
At least half the job cuts will be made in English-language departments, said Richard Stursberg, vice-president of English services. Twenty per cent of them will be borne by regional services, and the remainder by the network, he added.
Television will feel the cuts more acutely than radio, which will continue broadcasting without commercials, Stursberg said.
But “the beef of the (television) schedule remains largely intact.”
CBC management has offered a voluntary retirement package and, until the results are known, the number of layoffs and the areas most affected remain unclear.
Another town hall meeting for CBC English services is scheduled for tomorrow at 2 p.m.