Oscar noms and Presidential inauguration will not air together

In a classy move by the Academy Award organizers next year’s Oscar nominations will be moved from Tuesday to Thursday in order to not compete with the Presidential Inauguration. The people over at yahoo.com gave us this on the story.

“It didn’t make any sense for us to try to compete with [the inauguration] from a news point of view,” Academy Executive Administrator Ric Robertson told the Associated Press.

And so next year the inauguration, ordered by no less than the U.S. Constitution to be held on Jan. 20, will command the spotlight on Jan. 20, a Tuesday, while the Oscars will issues its wakeup calls on Jan. 22, a Thursday

No other dates will be moved for the Oscars.

The change in the dates means very little to me, and I’m not sure it will bother many others. After all both Tuesday and Thursday are work days. If anything people are more likely to have a Oscar nomination party on a Thursday than a Tuesday (although I’ve never heard of a party for the nominations). If the Academy Awards themselves were being moved maybe I could see it being more of a nuisance but really that’s all it would be.

Funny that the Oscars don’t want to compete with the next President, because I know that I will for sure be watching the Oscars nominations. As for the inauguration, I haven’t watched one yet and I guess it depends on who wins this election.