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Yesterday AMPAS announced that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer will be producing the Oscars telelcast and that is the earliest that they have ever announced who got the job. So people started to wonder why they announced it 8 months before the show is set to air. Well according to
Deadline Hollywood, it could be because they might be moving the Academy Awards to January. I think that is a brilliant idea! First off it would make Awards season so much shorter. Second maybe the studios would stop releasing the films they think could get a nom in limited release during the last week in December. I hate that they save their best for last and only let a few people in NY and LA see it. Maybe they would start releasing worthy movies earlier in the year and we could get excited for the noms as compared to what is that movie, never heard of it or saw it.
The only negative is the other Awards show would become even less relevant than they already are, oh wait maybe that is not a bad thing. There are way too many awards shows as it is.
And here is the biggest positive about this year’s Oscars, Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman will not be back producing it! Together those two produced the worst Oscars I ever saw and I am so happy they will not be back! Hopefully not just for one year but forever.
