• Greg Ellwood shrewdly notes potential motive to announcing Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) first as presenters at this year’s Academy Awards. [Awards Campaign]
• Tom Hooper and Geoffrey Rush respond to the notion of cutting “The King’s Speech” to appease a PG-13 rating. [Inside Movies]
• “Master Class: Editing James Franco…with James Franco meets on Thursday afternoons weekly.” [Movieline]
• Kyle Smith chalks the “Waiting for Superman” Oscar snub up to “reverse McCarthyism.” [New York Post]
• Patrick Goldstein responds, though misrepresents the eligibility issue of “Fahrenheit 9/11” (which was actually not submitted for consideration as a documentary in order to capitalize on Best Picture potential). [The Big Picture]
• Harvey Weinstein goes on the record with Mike Fleming. [Deadline]
• Kyle Buchanan, knowing only of a season with Weinstein as snake charmer, apparently, lampoons it as a talking points memo. [Vulture]
• Scott Feinberg believes that not predicting “The Social Network” for Best Picture when it was sweeping the critics “would have been impossible to justify with anything more than just a gut feeling.” I’m guessing he wasn’t talking to Academy members. [ScottFeinberg.com]
• Alec Baldwin remembers Oscar-winning film music composer John Barry, who passed away Sunday. [Huffington Post]
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