It may not have been as bad as Marty or Peter's dry spell, but going 12 years without a visit from Oscar has been quite long enough! The last one the company picked up was for Gump in '94. Up until then it never went Oscar-less for longer than two years.
The articles on the subject so far (all, um, two of them) have this "They're back!" tone to them, which I enjoy, but I don't think there was any real doubt about the quality of our work as it was that we weren't getting a good chance to show off what we can do. Hopefully this will help bring in more of those kinds of projects.