The real question is: is it tons of drugs, or a mental health crisis in action?

Yes, the problem is that subjectivity exists.

The Oscars want to have it both ways. They want to keep being The Award™©®, but they also don’t want to have to substantially change how they consider the awards. The reason a lot of people don’t watch is because they see a list of movies nominated that they probably haven’t seen and may not even have heard of. For…

I don’t know that awards presentations are boring in and of themselves. But the fact is, the Grammies turning their show into a concert is both smart and doable (and pretty much what they’ve done all along). The comparable thing would be having Oscar nominees do live performances of scenes from movies they’ve been…

The problem is who the nominate and that’s why no one cares. The Irishman did not deserve to get nominated for anything but got nominated for a bunch of stuff because Martin Scorsese while better films like Midsommar didn’t get nominated for anything. However you feel about Awkwafina she put in a great performance in…

Notright notright notriiiight.

But you could always read the results the next day, back to print news days. I think the show’s producers need to accept that part of the audience is gone forever, so give the people tuning in what they expect from the Academy Awards. The best they can do at this point is shallow out the attrition rate.

Best VA is loooooong overdue. I would even say “best VA casting” for a conglomerate and “best voice acting” for an individual.

Award shows are so antiquated. Why sit through a 3-hour telecast (i don’t sit through anything for 3 hours. who does?) when you can read the results the next day and watch clips if there are any worthy of watching?

Ive been wanting a stunt category for years. If the Oscar’s truly want to make it more interesting to the average movie goer and bring in the audiences that only watch summer blockbusters, this is an avenue to truly acknowledge the skill it takes to coordinate a scene of that nature. Stunt Coordinators and…

It seems like the most obvious solution is to have two awards shows. You put the celeb-fest Oscars on ABC and it is just awards for acting, directing, best song, best picture, best animated feature, the honorary award that Sam Jackson got and maybe screenplay. You make it 2 and a half hours and make the 30 minutes…

I don’t see how the “hardcore” Oscars suggested by Linklater is in any way “similar to how the Grammys have steered almost entirely away from presenting awards at all in favor of a show that’s really just a string of performances.” If anything, both the Oscars and Grammys are doing much the same thing right now —…

Here’s what you do:
1. Put it on streaming.
2. Add six more categories—not hard to do
3. Cut the skits. No one gives a shit about the skits.
4. MORE MOVIE MONTAGES!!!!
5. LONGER OSCAR CLIPS!!!

They could just stop caring about ratings if they turned into a non-profit and explored alternate sources of funding — though I doubt that would even be necessary.

It’s like buying tickets to a Lauryn Hill or Morrissey show and expecting it to start on time, if at all. Unlikely.

This news is met with many a dry eye.

Is it really last minute if he announced it weeks ago? There was no chance Billie was going to play his dumb games, so nobody should be surprised by this.

He has to fill his cheek pouches with acorns

At this point, if you’re a concert promoter that is still booking Kanye and counting on him to be anything but unreliable, the consequences are kind of on you.

I guess he was sick of Will Smith and Chris Rock getting all the attention, or maybe he just genuinely forgot about the performance.  Either way, whatevs.  Have to think Coachella has a backup planned already.