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Steven Spielberg Disagrees With Oscars Decision To Pre-Record 8 Categories: ‘All Of Us Make Movies Together’

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One of this year’s Best Director nominees is speaking out against the Academy’s decision to pre-tape eight of the award categories before the live Oscars show this month.

Speaking with Deadline, “West Side Story” director Steven Spielberg expressed his disagreement with the decision, which will see the awards for Production Design, Sound, Editing, and more handed out before all the stars are seated, and then edited into the show to save time during the broadcast. READ MORE: Late Night Hosts React To Oscars’ ‘Insulting’ Decision To Drop Craft Categories From Live Ceremony “I disagree with the decision made by the executive committee.

I feel very strongly that this is perhaps the most collaborative medium in the world. All of us make movies together, we become a family where one craft is just as indispensable as the next,” Spielberg said. “I feel that at the Academy Awards there is no above the line, there is no below the line.

All of us are on the same line bringing the best of us to tell the best stories we possibly can,” he added. “And that means for me  we should all have a seat at the supper table together live at 5.” Spielberg also talked about his own important collaborations with his crew over the years. “When I look back and I think without John Williams, ‘Jaws’ would wear dentures.

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