Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterMost years, the Oscars media room is as intimate and pedestrian as an award show gets.Agents and publicists drink warm diet coke and pound cocktail shrimp with the global press and a throng of photographers.
Movie stars and filmmakers glide through, gossip is shared, Wi-Fi is terrible, a good time is had.But as the pandemic has taught us all season long, no amount of planning or decorum is a match for the unbeatable foe of Zoom.
Adhering to similar COVID-19 concessions as the live show, the press was relegated to a virtual conference room. And, aside from Glenn Close’s “Da Butt” moment, this is where the majority of the gloriously uncomfortable award show moments occurred.Despite noble efforts from the.
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