Oscars Producer Steven Soderbergh Talks Category Switch-Up And Other Experiments: 2021 Ceremony Was “An Opportunity To Try Some Really Different Stuff”
’ run of show was jarring for more reasons than one, it proved controversial mainly because of the way Lead Actor ended up panning out. While Chadwick Boseman passed away from colon cancer last August, at the age of 43, he was long considered a frontrunner for Best Actor, given the strength of his turn in Netflix’s August Wilson adaptation, ultimately land a posthumous nomination. Therefore, when word of the category shuffle broke on Oscars night, many assumed they understood the reasons for it.
Given that the 93rd Oscars happened in the midst of a global pandemic, they were always going to be different, in one way or another. For a famously avant garde filmmaker like Soderbergh, what was happening in the world represented an “opportunity” to experiment. While Soderbergh wasn’t surprised by negative response to this move , he feels good in hindsight about the tricks he tried to freshen up the broadcast. “You have to understand this show was very much viewed by us and by the Academy as an opportunity to try some really different stuff. And the understanding was always, there are going to be some things that work and some things that don’t, things that people like, things that people don’t. That’s the point,” he said.
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