From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.

Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all right life.

He just isn't clean.

What's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

It's a big awards weekend in Hollywood.

The Oscars on Sunday night.

We hear what it's like for a movie executive whose company has three of the five films in the foreign language category,

and he still doesn't feel like a frontrunner.

But before the Oscars Sunday, folks in the Indy World head to their annual awards bash on Friday.

John Waters is one of our indie film panelists who tells us how they're going to roll at the Spirit Awards.

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hi, Kim. Have you filled out your Oscar ballot?

I think mine was lost in the mail. But... Mine, too. And they're due soon. They're due Tuesday night.

Tuesday night. The deadline is upon us. And we've seen us some notable gaffes. Notably, one of the

Hurt Locker producers, Nicholas Chartier, of Voltage Pictures, has sent out an email begging for votes.

That wasn't what got him in trouble. It's not begging for votes. They got him in trouble.

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