After a shameful night of failed self-adulation this weekend the Hollywood elitists managed to come away looking all the more worse for designer wear. It was as if the lights had been turned up too high and the sequined gowns were exposed as bedazzled off-the-rack fashions. The end result of the Oscars was that in an unintentional manner there was an exposure of the failings of this very industry as a social leader.
Sunday’s telecast of the 93rd Academy Awards was a fiasco any way you look at it. Due to the pandemic it was a logistical nightmare, they had science-defying standards for the show, and the ceremony was a head-shaking affair of confusion. (I covered the fiasco live, at RedState.) This led to an amazingly horrible ratings result, where the show came in from last year’s historic low with an audience that was -60% lower than that embarrassing figure.
Normally a massacre of this level involves Jason Voorhees and a crowd of teenagers.
As I covered the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony here on a live basis last night, I had stated that I was doing so in order to prevent many others from having to endure the telecast. I had no idea I was going to be so successful in truncating the audience. Not only was the viewership reaching all-time lows, but it was also a
steep drop from lasts year’s record-low numbers.
The entire ceremony was altered as a result of the pandemic. The broadcast was pushed back two months, from its normal late February appearance, and there was also a change in venue. A much smaller auditorium was used to allow for proper distancing, while the overflow attendees were herded out to adjoining patios and rotated in and out for the various categories. There was an odd mask requirement where the starlets could be properly seen on camera, but then everyone was required to mask up during commercial breaks.
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