LOS ANGELES — Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has a long resume — box office billions from franchises like the "Pirates of Caribbean" and "Bad Boys" movies, several hundred (and counting) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" episodes and enough cinematic explosions to have inflicted hearing damage on generations of audiences.
The one item missing from the 79-year-old Bruckheimer's CV: an Oscar nomination.
Now, maybe you feel that omission is not glaring but earned. Like, what, Bruckheimer should have been nominated for "Pearl Harbor"? Or "National Treasure"? He has always been a populist, concerned with putting people in the seats, not the whims of Oscar voters. The academy can have its "prestige." He'll take the Happy Meal tie-ins.
