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Film Fans Pick "Avatar" as Oscar's Top Snub; Poll Results on Show's Best & Worst Moments

March 8, 2010

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Los Angeles, CA (RPRN) 03/08/10 — Fandango asked Oscar viewers to pick the “Biggest Snubs” and “Best and Worst Moments” of last night’s Academy Awards telecast – and if you’d like to speak to one of our movie experts about the Oscar show survey today, please do contact us at 310-954-0461.  Here are the results, as of 7:00 a.m. PT, based on online polls on our site:

What was the biggest snub of the evening?

• Avatar losing for Best Picture: 57%
• Inglourious Basterds’s Quentin Tarantino losing for Best Original Screenplay: 21%
• Avatar’s James Cameron losing for Best Director: 10%
• Julie and Julia’s Meryl Streep losing for Best Actress: 8%
• Up in the Air’s Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner losing for Best Adapted Screenplay: 4%

What was the best moment of the Academy Awards Show?

• Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock’s speech 32%
• Ben Stiller as an Avatar Na’vi:  20%
• Salutes to nominated actors from fellow performers: 12%
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  The Hurt Locker- Avatar

  Hughes tribute 11%
• Best Director winner Kathryn Bigelow’s speech: 10%
• Best Actor winner Jeff Bridges’ speech: 8%
• Best Animated Feature characters explaining what Oscar nomination means to them 4%
• Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin in their Paranormal Activity skit: 3%

What was the worst moment of the Academy Awards Show?

• Dancing to The Hurt Locker music and other Best Score themes: 28%
• Tom Hanks rushing to read the Best Picture Winner without announcing the nominees: 27%
• Sean Penn’s mumbling introduction to the Best Actress presentation: 21%
• The Music by Prudence producer interrupting her colleague’s acceptance speech: 14%
• Neil Patrick Harris’ introductory song & dance: 5%
• Kristen Stewart & Taylor Lautner introducing a film clip tribute to horror movies: 2%

Best wishes for a great week, Harry Medved/Fandango (310-954-0461, harry.medved@fandango.com); Melinda Petrow/Fandango (310-954-0278, ext. 231, melinda.petrow@fandango.com)

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