"Literally hundreds of thousands of people voted online and Gladiator was the big winner this year in both picture and Russell Crowe won actor and Ridley Scott won director and the best actress category... a little actress by the name Julia Roberts won that. So movie goers overwhelmingly voted for Gladiator and for Julia Roberts so it will be interesting to see if the Academy follow suit."
And on Oscar night...
"Three of four years ago, they wouldn't let us Internet folks even in the building and now we play a big part not only on the day of the Oscars we'll be backstage and we'll be doing interviews and hosting live Webcasts and letting people ask questions with the stars and those kinds of things, but in preparation for the event, we've been doing all kinds of things including Oscar trivia games, you can watch previews of the movies... "
You can even get help planning an Oscar party. Bootcamp, I'm Fred Fishkin, Bloomberg Radio.