Regina King
The critics have weighed in on this year’s Covid-safe Oscars – and many of their verdicts are less than positive.
The Arts Desk said it was “dispiriting throughout” and asked why winners were allowed “to yammer on incessantly”.
Colman Domingo
Even Variety’s more upbeat review took issue with its “insistence on upending its own order for the sake of it”.
In a pandemic-necessitated break with tradition, this year’s Oscars were moved from their usual home at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater to Los Angeles’s Union Station.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg felt it was a fitting location for the ceremony given “it was, in some ways, a trainwreck“.