91st Annual Academy Awards

[Heretic]

Found this, regarding cutting speeches:
"The show’s director, Glenn Weiss, has stated that he will determine what “emotionally resonant” moments from the four winners’ speeches will be selected to air later in the broadcast. The show will cut any additional comment from presenters, as well as any recitation of the nominees as they see fit."

 

[samsnee]

So basically not letting viewers see the winners express their gratitude the way they choose but the rather the way the editors choose.

 

[flickchick85]

Soundbites. We're getting soundbites from each speech.

 

[jmc]

Found this, regarding cutting speeches:
"The show’s director, Glenn Weiss, has stated that he will determine what “emotionally resonant” moments from the four winners’ speeches will be selected to air later in the broadcast. The show will cut any additional comment from presenters, as well as any recitation of the nominees as they see fit."

**** off Glenn, you're drunk.

 

[sueb1863]

Well that's gonna go down real well. /s

 

[Kane52630]

Even more reason why people should tune into the Indie Spirit Awards.

 

[Aximili86]

That ****ing A Star Is Born song needs to go away, right now. Feel like I'm hearing it involuntarily every-other day about now. Like goofy-Nickelback-Spiderman-song-years-ago levels of overexposed.

 

[samsnee]

It would never happen but I would love if some of the winners at the end of the night like Best Actor or Director gave up their time and called up the winners from the cut speeches up to regive their speech. A big F U to the Academy.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I miss the days when the Oscars were cool to waste 10 minutes of everybody’s time introducing the world to a bunch of nobodies who later became... nobodies.

 

[jmc]

Ricki Lake was considered a future Oscar winner back then? I'm starting to think maybe the Oscars need to cheese themselves up again. As bad as this stuff is, it's at least unintentionally hilarious.

 

[Schlosser85]

Found this, regarding cutting speeches:
"The show’s director, Glenn Weiss, has stated that he will determine what “emotionally resonant” moments from the four winners’ speeches will be selected to air later in the broadcast. The show will cut any additional comment from presenters, as well as any recitation of the nominees as they see fit."

Wtf

 

[Boom]

Yeah I'm definitely not tuning in this year. This has been a complete ****-show from start to finish.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[harlequinade]

Blast from the past, Carrey explaining cinematography's importance

 

[jmc]

Batman Forever was nominated for Cinematography?

 

[samsnee]

Jim Carrey may have become a weird anti-vaxxer but he always makes for a funny presenter.

 

[James.B]

All Oscar Categories to Air Live After Hollywood Protest

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has reversed its controversial decision to hand out four Oscars during the telecast’s commercial breaks, individuals close to the group told Variety.

Following a Thursday night meeting with top cinematographers, Academy leadership including President John Bailey and CEO Dawn Hudson have pledged to air every awards category on the live show a week from Sunday.

The decision comes after days of backlash from irate filmmakers and craftspeople who responded to the Academy’s decision to relegate four awards categories to commercial breaks. Those awards were to be condensed and aired later on in the show.

 

[samsnee]

Well that’s 3 for 3 in terms of bad ideas that got reversed. Nice job Academy.

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

Batman Forever was nominated for Cinematography?

It had 3 Oscar nominations: for Cinematography, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.

 

[DarkKnight88]

All Oscar Categories to Air Live After Hollywood Protest

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has reversed its controversial decision to hand out four Oscars during the telecast’s commercial breaks, individuals close to the group told Variety.

Following a Thursday night meeting with top cinematographers, Academy leadership including President John Bailey and CEO Dawn Hudson have pledged to air every awards category on the live show a week from Sunday.

The decision comes after days of backlash from irate filmmakers and craftspeople who responded to the Academy’s decision to relegate four awards categories to commercial breaks. Those awards were to be condensed and aired later on in the show.

How about they add, "Sorry for wasting everybody's time."

 

[The Shape]

Shocker.

 

[samsnee]

The Academy should have added the caveat that NO ONE will be allowed to get up and go to the bathroom during those 4 awards now.

 

[harlequinade]

LOL this is so embarrassing, all it was was an attention ploy

 

[sueb1863]

No big surprise after the backlash.

The ratings will probably still be terrible, though.

 

[harlequinade]

LOL is that failure of the president going to show up during ceremony?

They should boo him