Will this be Jessica Chastain’s year? Will “Drive My Car” lose Best Picture to a far more conventional film? Richard Brody on the likely winners of this year’s Oscars.
and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, are nominees for Best Director; both movies’ screenplays have been nominated, too, and “Drive My Car” is one of the five Best International Feature finalists. Three major critics’ groups—the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics , along with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association—voted “Drive My Car” Best Picture.
There is one key part of the Oscars that the Academy’s voters don’t control—the ceremony itself—and it’s bad news for the Oscars that, well before the broadcast, the ceremony is news. In response to a sharp decline in viewership since 2014 , the Academy removed eight categories from the broadcast, shunting those awards to a preliminary hour. , the Academy was responding to warnings from ABC, the network airing the show, that it would cancel its broadcast if categories weren’t cut.
Ratings-driven panic pushed the Oscars broadcast down the slippery slope to irrelevance when, in 2009, the winners of honorary Oscars were booted off of the broadcast altogether and into a rump banquet. Was it just a matter of saving ten or fifteen minutes? Or of eliminating elders from a show that wanted to tickle the fancy of young viewers? In any case, the winners of Honorary Awards this year, who are kept off the stage and out of sight, are Danny Glover, Samuel L.
A modest proposal: let the ceremony be itself, a spectacle at which movie people get honored and make speeches for the occasion, with all the spontaneity and personality that this implies.
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