The Oscars would once again be a full ceremony and all awards would be awarded during the gala.

The new CEO of the Hollywood Academy, Bill Kramer, has expressed his intention for the Oscars to be announced again the winners of all awards during the galainstead of distributing the statuettes for the technical categories one hour before the broadcast.

Kramer, who first took office last month, said in A framethe magazine of the Academy, which would like to review “that during the show all artistic and scientific disciplines are awarded“, although neither the body nor the ABC network broadcasting the awards have confirmed the change at the moment.

“We need to produce an Oscar that celebrates the collaborative work of the industry,” he added.

How did the last edition go?

In the latest edition of the awards, of the 23 categories that make up the Oscars, eight were announced before the gala beganwhile the red carpet was finished and the vast majority of guests had not yet sat down at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (USA).

Then, during the broadcast, a summary with the reactions of the winners has been published.

The categories concerned They were the best documentary, the best editing, the best makeup and hairdressing, the best set design, the best sound, the best short film, the best animated short, and the best soundtrack.

Disadvantaged Latins

The change reduced the Hispanic presence at the ceremony, as Spaniards Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sánchez won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for The wiper during this stretch.

That decision angered manyand trade unions representing publishers, musicians and sound engineers proposed organizing a boycott and proposed that the candidates refuse the invitation to the ceremony.

In 2018, the Academy announced plans to remove the technical awards from the gala and deliver them during the commercial break, but withdrew after the rejection of the cinephile community.

Other awards, such as the Grammys and Latin Grammys, deliver most of the awards in a previous ceremony that is not broadcast on television, although in their case they have nearly a hundred categories (different for each musical style) compared to 23 at the Oscars. .

A gala with fewer candidates

Last year, a total of 276 films competed to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year, the top category of the Hollywood Academy Awards, which means the lowest record in the last ten years due to the pandemic.

One of the reasons that explained this significant decrease in enrollments, released by the Academy, is that the eligibility period for this edition was only 10 months, since in 2020, when the gala was postponed to the end of April, the deadline was also extended. to films released in January and February 2021.

This extension meant that 366 films aspired to win the Oscar for Best Picture, the highest number in the last 50 years. However, in the 94th edition – the last one – only films released between 1 March and 31 December 2021 could compete.

Source: EFE

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