The 91st Academy Awards (February 24, 2019) TV Show • Page 27

this is all so confusing

 

I honestly don’t care who volunteered for what, nor do I care that they’ll edit in the speeches later. This is stupid and the fact that they’d never do this for any of the acting awards, or for Best Director, just goes to show that they value certain categories over others. I would’ve been angry as hell last year if Deakins had finally won his Oscar offscreen during a commercial and then had to be edited back into the show later. It’s just ridiculous.

Again, leave the show the way it was. Shortening the runtime isn’t going to increase the ratings or convince people to watch the show who weren’t going to, it’s only going to turn off the people who already actually do want to see the show.

 

We're going to make Bradley Cooper wait outside
Retracted he is allowed in the building

 

Lmao this is too funny

 

Remember when they wanted to do a Best Popular Film category?

 

omg just watched Eighth Grade and it is so special, how did this get overlooked

 

The Academy tends to overlook horror films

 

The Oscars needs to take a year off to regroup

 

Not the year Greta Gerwig makes Little Women

 

We’ll just give her all the awards

 

It’s good to know the academy is as spineless as they are stupid

 

If she hands Gaga her Oscar I might die

 

Saw an article Cooper won’t be cosplaying as Jackson during their performance

 

Watching Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and just getting teary-eyed at so much of it. Fantastic documentary.

 

At least they're doing away with those awful "let's pull rando's off the street and put them on stage"

https://news.avclub.com/the-latest-to-get-booted-from-the-oscars-ceremony-all-1832705104

 

So Queen is gonna perform at the ceremony despite no nominations in the music categories

Queen and Adam Lambert will rock the stage at the Oscars

 

And yet the Academy is supposedly concerned about a bloated runtime. Give me a fucking break.

 

That sounds like they took the wrong message from the outcry about best original songs not being performed.

 

It’s strictly about enticing people to watch

 

Yeah. They're not thinking about regular Oscar viewers, people who generally watch it anyway. They're thinking about people who don't watch it. They're fucking up every step of the way, but none of this is about retaining us as viewers.

 

Bohemian Rapsody was the 7th highest grossing movie of last year. Black Panther was 2nd. There’s a reason they wanted a Best popular film category. To bring in the viewers. The highest rated telecast was in 1998 when Titanic was a behemoth at the box office.