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By switching the normal awards order, the 93rd Academy Awards may have set a new bar for anti-climactic
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Joaquin Phoenix presents the Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role during the live ABC Telecast of The 93rd Oscars in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 25, 2021
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By switching the normal awards order, the 93rd Academy Awards may have set a new bar for anti-climactic
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.
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Explainer: What was with that weird Oscar ending and why did the show look different? Going into the ceremony on Sunday (Apr 25), the show s producers had said they wanted to take “some big swings in the telecast. One turned out to be switching the normal awards order.
Regina King, left, and Aldis Hodge arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark Terrill, Pool)
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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 (Apr 25) night. There was a glamour-filled red carpet but no onlookers or teams of publicists. There were in-person, mask-less winner
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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 night’s befuddlements.