Guess how many Americans in the picture? The New York Times on the globalization of the Oscars (h/t: Jesse Elliott):
The morning after the Academy Awards dawned here with a realization: There will
be a lot of gold leaving Los Angeles in the next few days. JavierBardem, Marion
Cotillard, Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton are each taking statues across the Atlantic. Oscars for art direction, makeup and costume design all went to people for whom the United
States is a passport stamp …The lustrous industrial pedigree of Alan Mencken and Disney had three songs from “Enchanted”
in the running, but all were trumped by a pair of footloose buskers, Glen
Hansard and Marketa Irglova, one Irish, one Czech, for “Falling Slowly” from “Once,”
an Irish film that was made on a budget that might pay the craft services bill
on a studio picture for a week …Some of that international hegemony — or absence of parochialism, depending
on your perspective — goes all the way to the top. Daniel Battsek, chief
executive of Miramax, and Peter Rice, president of Fox Searchlight, are both
British …
Now in the past, most of these folks would have “chosen” to live in the states, like most other creatives. Now, not so much … Could we be seeing the “flight” of the creative class … hmmmmm …
