Oscar Telecast s Best Creative Decisions Got Lost in Forced Format Changes: TV Review
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After strutting into the Oscars framed by a pointedly cinematic aspect ratio, the Los Angeles sunlight streaming in through Union Station’s windows, opening presenter Regina King took the stage of the most unusual ceremony in recent memory and promptly tripped on her gown. Steadying herself with a broad smile, the consummate professional shrugged and laughed, “live TV, folks!” Despite the show’s many attempts to meet these extraordinary times with a markedly different approach, the Academy Awards is, after all, still a live awards show at its core. Deviating from the genre’s formula can only do so much to alter its DNA. But watching this 93rd edition navigate a pandemic environment to deliver something unusual was nonetheless a fascinating exercise in rising to the occasion where necessary, and tripping on its gown when changing things
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The 93rd annual Academy Awards were always going to be a bit surreal this year.
The pandemic changed many of the usual rhythms and traditions of the Oscars on Sunday night. There was a glamour-filled red carpet but no onlookers or teams of publicists. There were in-person, mask-less winners but not in the usual order, and the speeches were never drowned out with play-off music.
Compounding the differences this year was a telecast, steered by producers Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins and Stacy Sher, that wanted a new look and feel to an often stodgy, persistently unchanging ceremony.
But what was with that ending? How staged was Glenn Close’s dance? And where, oh where, was the play-off music? Here’s my best try to answer some of the nights befuddlements.
LOS ANGELES, Apr 26: It was a night of big wins for meditative road drama “Nomadland” which got the Oscar for best picture as well as best director for Chloe Zhao, the first woman of colour to get the coveted trophy, at the 93rd Academy Awards, a socially distanced event held in the shadow of the Covid pandemic.
The film, about grief and finding connections outside the traditional structure of a family, also won Frances McDormand her third best actress Oscar after “Fargo” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” as well as a gong for producing it.
The usual glitter that accompanies Hollywood’s most starry night had dimmed but with women and people of colour creating history as the first-time winners, there was plenty to celebrate this year.
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