| @AndrewH, @yankee00:
The Academy prefers to call this year's award ceremony the 83rd Academy Awards. During the telecast, that is what you'll hear it referred to; this is surely done in part to avoid confusion between the calendar year in which the films premiere and the year in which ceremony takes place.
However, the Academy and their marketing choose to align itself with the year in which the ceremony takes place (for this year, 2011). As evidence, the official Academy website currently has the following title at the top of the web browser: "Oscar - The official 2011 site for the 83rd Academy Awards." [http://oscar.go.com/]
To ignorantly and blatantly say that the awards "are known as the 2010 Awards.." is just false. Known to whom? Certainly not the Academy. And to dogmatically post only "2010." with that obnoxiously snotty period after the year on more than one Oscar-related Sporcle quiz is equally ignorant.
You won't find the Academy calling it the "2010 Awards" or mentioning the year 2010 in any of their official documents or marketing with the exception of the rulebook where it says that under certain conditions the film "must begin between January 1, 2010, and midnight of December 31, 2010." [http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule03.html] However, under certain other conditions, the film could even premiere in the year 2009! So certain films involved in the ceremony could very well have nothing to do with the year 2010 at all.
Additionally, Sporcle themselves have chosen to title their published quizzes according to the year in which the ceremony took place either by selecting quizzes in which the creator chose to title it this way or by the editor changing the title upon publication on the main page. Type merely "oscar nominees" in the search bar, and you'll find this to be the case. [http://www.sporcle.com/games/tags/oscarnominees]
Case closed. |
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