No, I’m not referring to THIS, which is also unlikely to go away any time soon. I’m referring to what started more than a month ago, following the Academy’s decision to award eight pre-Oscars for live television broadcasting and to add edited excerpts from their speeches to the broadcast. After listening to the winners in the background on Sunday – as well as the nominees, previous winners and other Academy members who attended from the affected categories – the Hollywood Reporter had a hard time finding one that had something positive to say about how this done. handles. “I hope you hide in shame and sadness today,” Oscar-winning re-recording mixer Paul Massey wrote in an email he sent to Academy President David Rubin on Monday. “This was really the WORST Oscar show ever aired. Thick, bloated, without instruction to keep it within three hours as promised in the eight pre-recorded categories. We were excluded for no reason. ” Massey, who received his tenth nomination for No Time To Die this year, continued his assessment of the show: really above the line. The order system has NEVER appeared on such a screen as last night. “ The Academy did not comment on this piece. In the controversy that led to Sunday’s Oscars, the change of form was attributed to the need to shake up the show. The 2021 ceremony was the lowest-grossing television Oscar ever, with just 10.4 million viewers, which due to COVID was a small-scale event at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. This year’s show went better. The ABC show grossed $ 16.62 million as it returned to the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, although it was the second lowest-grossing show since Nielsen began airing viewers in the 1970s. scores each year had exceeded 20 million. The message before the show about the change of format was that the 2022 Oscars had to control their duration, but the TV broadcast lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes. “The purpose as we were told was to ensure that the show lasted three hours and that went categorically completely wrong,” said one candidate whose accusation was not presented live. “I hope the Academy has a major overhaul.” Another member of the Academy, who has been nominated for an Oscar in recent years, said he was worried about participating in the show because the TV show plan “seemed very disrespectful to many of the nominees and winners”. “It turned out to be even worse,” said the Academy member, who noted that the show had run out of time. “And they still could not fit into the full 45-second acceptance speeches in the eight excluded categories.” Behind the scenes on Sunday, many winners criticized the band, including Dune editor Joe Walker, who ironically said his Oscar-winning speech was a montage – the beginning, the middle and the end. “We understand the pressure on the Academy,” Walker said, adding, “We all stand together in the Academy with the same strength and I strongly feel that was a bad thing.” “I think I felt like she was cheating on people,” said Jenny Beavan, who won an Oscar for costume design for Cruella during the live show. And Alberto Mielgro, director of the Oscar-winning short film The wiper, he added, “I hope this is the last year they do this.” After the show, it was not long before the refrain of disapproval spread. On Monday, Frank Oz said in a tweet “After 30 years as a member, I’m ashamed to be associated with the Oscar TV show. Not because of “The Slap” but because of the loudness of the show. “All I feel is a desperate attempt to attract more viewers by any means possible, not a show about the love of making movies.” During a press conference last week, Oscar-winning producer Will Packer said: “We want to make sure everyone has their own moment on this show and that they are treated with the same reverence and elegance that you expected at the Oscars.” . And on Monday he wrote on Twitter: “I am so proud of this show !!! I am grateful for all the appreciation, support and reviews. LOVE was overwhelming. It was a real honor and pleasure to take on this responsibility. @ShaylaCowan and I wanted an OSCARS that looked and felt different than before… » However, sources from the affected branches told THR that the way the eight categories were processed in the live broadcast was clumsy and hasty. “Joe Walker’s acceptance speech was really witty and intense in its full-length form, but not in the cropped version,” said one Oscar winner from a year ago. “The abbreviated accusations seemed awkwardly processed and hastily entangled in the show. Better than last year – an easy target – and perhaps the best of the last ten years, but it still stinks. The Academy must find a new way to fund itself and escape the thumbs up of ABC / Disney. ” (The academy receives a licensing fee of about $ 100 million for the show, plus a piece of advertising, sources say.) “It was cumbersome, not smooth,” added a former Oscar winner from another industry. “It used to be a celebration of all aspects of filmmaking. It was steep. “There was no way we could focus on what the award meant.” A nominee at an influential branch noted that those – as well as themselves – who sat down for the so-called “golden hour” awards were in their seats at 4pm, an hour before the start of the live broadcast, and were “exhausted from the duration of the show λοι Everyone was so bored until the end “. As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter before Sunday, Oscar-winning sound vet Tom Fleishman resigned from the Academy due to the decision to present the charges before the live broadcast, and four-time sound mixer Peter Kurland said that he intends to resign, while two recent Oscar winners told THR that they were considering similar moves. “It was not the Oscars,” another member of the Academy told THR on Monday. “If this is going to be the new format, then I have to think about whether I want to stay at the Academy. “A lot of people think the same thing.” Looking to the future, a full board meeting of the Academy is scheduled for Wednesday, although the Will Smith / Chris Rock incident is expected to be the main topic. Later, another board meeting is expected to include a full autopsy for the Oscars. This summer, the Academy will elect a new president, as appointed by Rubin, and a new CEO to replace the outgoing Dawn Hudson. Massey concluded in an email to Rubin: held high. relationship. Well, not anymore – I’m ashamed to be a member of the Academy, a candidate in a second category (sound), that I have to explain your misguided decisions and actions to those who do not belong to the industry. Shame on you – You are leaving the Academy miserable “.
