Ash Ketchum

Sounds like he's pitching a POLTERGEIST-like horror movie set at the Oscar show.

Mr. Flix

Please retract that statement and apologize. You just made me feel incredibly old and I'm offended.

inri222

Congratulations to Parasite. An excellent film. Would have also loved if pain & Glory won, it's also excellent film with a career best performance by Antonio Banderas.

Mondo Kane

And, to his horror, he has to return next year to present.

dex14

He doesn't have to. That is usually just an acting tradition. Alfonso Cuarón was nowhere to be seen this year.

L Everett Scott

Definitely not new. Here's the 10-second round-up from THR:

eXcentris

It's long overdue, but we all know the Academy is made up of a bunch of old geezers from the Cretaceous era. But it's a start I guess.

sauce07

I don't think the Best Director winner ever returns the following year to present the next with the award, they usually try to wheel out someone big.

Crocker Jarmen

I remember they used to do it. After Clint Eastwood won for Unforgiven, he presented it the next year to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List, who presented it the next year to Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump, who presented it the next year to Mel Gibson for Braveheart, who presented it the next year to Anthony Minghella for The English Patient, and then that broke the chain when the next year it was random Warren Beatty presenting the award to James Cameron for Titanic, and the next year it's Kevin Costner who presents the award to Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan, and then we're back in business again when Spielberg returns the next year to present it to Sam Mendes for American Beauty.

asianxcore

Honestly, I'd rather have these individuals using their status & platform in society to do something, rather than sit back and do absolutely nothing.

Count Dooku

I absolutely would rather have the winners . . . I mean, "the person the Oscar went to" use the platform to say something of substance, instead of thanking a list of names, but if their speech sounds like a barely coherent rant, it isn't helping matters much.
American actors seem to be afraid that if it is obvious they prepared and practiced a "winner's speech" then they will come off looking bad. But rambling through some mental talking points in the biggest spotlight of your career does not make you look particularly good.

inri222

dex14

And the downward trend continues...

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/osc...20-1203499199/

cultshock

RichC2

No big name movies, no host. Not sure what was expected.

GoldenJCJ

One thing I really liked about the show this year was the acting categories using montages of the performances rather than “say actor’s name, show a clip; say actors name, show a clip, etc.

I thought the way they did it this year felt a lot more natural.

TomOpus

I remember seeing stories last few years saying the academy has been inviting a more diverse younger group to become members. Maybe that has resulted in Parasite nabbing BP.

Paff

Until the Best Picture category is narrowed down to Avengers, Star Wars, Bridesmaids 4, The Fast and the Furious 23, it's not gonna have mainstream appeal.

Neil M.

I think it has more to do with expanding the number of nominees.

Decker

Why Has the Best Picture Race Become So Unpredictable?

Decker

^ That's a really interesting article. There have now been five consecutive "upsets" in the Best Picture category (meaning that the betting favorite didn't win the award).
Has some intriguing theories as to why that is

Count Dooku

I liked this as well. It made the clip package much more interesting to see how they pieced it together.

Count Dooku

If anyone reads that article that Decker posted, and then wants to explain the ODDS thing to me, that would be educational.

This was an unbelievable development—but not just because of the card snafu. Moonlight was already a long shot; for it to win at all was shocking. La La Land came into the 2017 Academy Awards as a juggernaut, having won most of the big guild awards in the run-up to the ceremony. With minus-450 betting odds to win the Best Picture trophy, it had an implied win probability north of 80 percent, making it a massive favorite. Moonlight, meanwhile, carried plus-430 odds, for a win probability under 20 percent.

Decker

-450 odds means that you would have to bet $450 on La La Land to win $100 if it won Best Picture. +430 meant that if you had bet $100 on Moonlight, you would win $430 back on your bet, or $530 back total, a little better than 5-1 odds (under 20% win probability like it says there)

philo

One of the worst shows I remember seeing in 30 years.
For a show about the movies they spent more time trotting out music stars and music acts with almost no appreciation of classic movies. Golden age stars like Kirk Douglas and Doris Day get nothing more than a photo. (Nice to hear Tom Hanks give a Spartacus shout out) A montage about songs in movies barely extends past the 80's. The Lifetime Achievement Awards, already marginalized, now can't be bothered to show excerpts from the recipients speeches. The heavy handed ploy of stacking the show with trendy presenters in a desperate attempt to attract an audience. The constant soap boxing on gender as though there should be a quota on who gets nominated in order to fulfill their ideal formula of equality. The Oscars have gone so far downhill. When the best segment celebrating movies comes from a Google ad the Oscars need to get a clue.