Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOscar is a perfect metaphor for COVID. Or maybe COVID is a metaphor for Oscars. Either way, both center on a sense of uncertainty, with people loudly advocating a “return to normal.”The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced Feb.
22 that eight categories will not be presented live on the air. It’s part of a plan to make Oscar’s TV ratings soar again. Meanwhile, many movie fans waiting for a best picture lineup that’s full of B.O.
winners, and waiting for streamers to take a back seat to the “purity” of bigscreen movies.None of this will happen. And that’s OK.
Change is inevitable and the only danger is in refusing to acknowledge that.The announcement about the eight (editing, hair/makeup, music score, song, sound, and the three short-film races) underline the fact that changes are underway.
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