The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences new CEO Bill Kramer explicitly acknowledged there are fixes that need to be made in the Academy’s annual Oscars show and process and promise…
emphasized in moving the show to a position of “power, honorability, and importance” were:
Hiring producing teams who are accountable to the Academy and creating a dedicated team within the Academy solely focused on the AwardsCreating an emotional investment in the nomineesMaking the red carpet an eventAs to that second point regarding honoring “all craft areas” on air, a bone of contention that led to great distress earlier this year at the 94th Oscars when the decision was made to present eight shall we say, less glamorous awards mainly for crafts, in a pre-show and then edited and...
I had heard they have no intention of repeating that “experiment” as was originally described to me by former CEO Dawn Hudson and past President David Rubin , but at today’s meeting they made no explicit promise to completely go back to the way it has been in the past.
At the meeting, Yang reiterated leadership’s committment to the members, “We are a members-first organization; members are our superpower, and we are prioritizing the needs of our Academy Members,” she said.
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