Oscars: what do you really have to do to win?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It’s the Oscars on Sunday, the pinnacle of awards season. Every year hundreds of films and performances are eligible, so what exactly is it that means some win and others don’t? It’s not enough to just be the best, there are a whole host of other factors that determine who takes home a gong. From prosthetic noses to silly dances and branded pillows, Oscar veteran and BBC Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson tells us the secrets to awards season success. Producers: Harriet Noble and Jaja Muhammad Mixed by Weidong Lin Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Tina Deheelie and this is Beyond Today, a space to ask one big question about one big story. Today, what do you really have to do to win an Oscar?
0:27.0	It's the Oscars on Sunday, the pinnacle of awards season, a celebration of best picture, best actor, best actress, and all the rest.
0:40.4	But how do you decide what's best? Harriet you love this time of year you love
0:46.0	awards season. I love it I get way too emotionally invested I am still
0:52.0	angry that boyhood my favorite film ever didn't win Best Picture
0:58.0	and Birdman which I really didn't like did like I feel like I will my entire life be angry about that.
1:05.0	You're still angry about that from four years ago.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:09.0	So every year there's going to be loads of films and performances that are good enough to win awards. So what is it? Why do certain
1:19.0	films win and get nominated and others don't.
1:23.0	So I've been looking into all of this and do bear with me because even if you don't care as much as me
1:31.0	you'll still be surprised by some of the reasons that some things
1:35.6	win and other things don't. A prosthetic nose was a huge part of one
1:42.2	particular Oscar win. I love the Oscars. This is Colin Patterson. I'm the BBC's entertainment
1:58.8	correspondent and as we speak he's on the plane to LA to cover his 17th Oscars.
2:07.0	We broadcast from the Red Carpet. I have a very infamous moment.
2:11.0	So I came on Radio 4 and I was being asked about who
2:14.7	had won and I was analyzing how gravity had won the most Oscars but in fact 12 years
2:18.6	a slave had won the big one best picture when Bono arrived and I shouted Bono Bono! Bono! Bono!
2:24.0	Bono! You're live in the Red of the Today program!
2:26.0	Bono! And I went Bono! Bono!
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