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Originally called "Your Choice for the Oscars," the show forecast winners of the Academy Awards competition.Originally called "Your Choice for the Oscars," the show forecast winners of the Academy Awards competition.Originally called "Your Choice for the Oscars," the show forecast winners of the Academy Awards competition.
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- TriviaIn 1965, Thomas targeted an older audience when he created a program that turned into something of an Oscar-eve tradition. Originally called "Your Choice for the Oscars," the show forecast winners of the Academy Awards competition. The results, tallied at first from ballots published in magazines, often mirrored the outcome of the Oscars. After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences filed suit in 1982 to block both the use of the name "Oscar" and the official list of nominees, the syndicated show was renamed "Your Choice for the Film Awards." Film critics were then asked to compile the list of nominees in six categories.
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Where's Vinnie?
Vincent Price's name should be up there as host. After the second or third year he was the host for many years. I think the first year he hosted it himself, then they gave him a female co-host, a different one each year. My memory is hazy on who they were. I think an early one was Ruta Lee and another time it might have been Zsa Zsa. The first few years it was just clips from the movies and people would phone in with their votes so whoever got the most at the end of the show won. Then they did it more like a fake Oscar ceremony. The hosts were dressed up formal and the voting was done before the show went on the air. When they switched the format, the show really stunk because the nominated films became different from the Ocar nominated ones. It was more like the People's Awards and who cares about that? But I lost interest by then. It would be nice if someone who knew how to do it got the facts together for this show so it would list all of the show's host. Although it was a local show, it was on for a long time and the hosts after the first year or two were well known actors.
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- WillEd
- Sep 2, 2014
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