Last week AMPAS announced that they were going to make the show longer by nominating 10 films for Best Picture (stupid idea) and this week they announced what will be missing from the telecast. The first thing (which really p!sses me off) is they are making changes to is what can be nominated for Best Song to the point that category might be eliminated from the show.
The governors approved the Music Branch Executive Committee recommendation that if no song achieves a minimum average score of 8.25 in the nominations voting, there be no original song nominees and thus no Oscar presented for the category. If only one song achieves the required minimum, it and the song with the next highest score will be deemed the nominees. If two or more songs achieve the minimum score, they will be the nominees though no more than five nominees can be selected. Previously, the rules dictated that there be no more than five but no fewer than three nominees in the category.
C’mon one of the best parts of the boring show is when they perform the Best Song noms. Who doesn’t love that part of the show besides AMPAS and the studios? Thankfully Randy Newman got his Oscar before the Academy cut his category out.
But one thing he will never be able to receive (if he were honored) during the Oscars would be one of the Lifetime Achievement awards that used to be handed out during the telecast because they are cutting those from the ceremony. In fact they are getting their own ceremony which probably won’t air on any major station.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to establish a new annual event at which it will present its testimonial awards – the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the Honorary Award. Honorees will be selected and announced in September and presented their awards at a celebratory dinner event in November. They will also be acknowledged at the year’s Academy Awards ceremony.
So now the Academy is saying that all these people that have worked a lifetime to win this achievement are not worth broadcast time. Nice.
Hey AMPAS instead of cutting the best stuff from the show by adding 5 movies to the Best Picture category, why don’t you cut out those stupid montages and dance interpretation numbers that are waste of time. Oh and head of AMPAS (whomever the new one is) I don’t care what you have to say, why don’t save you speech for the dinner for the Lifetime Achievement winners in November. Maybe there they want to hear your boring speech. I just want to know who won, what they were wearing, what songs were nominated for Best Song and a good opening number! Give me all of that and I will be watching! Oh that and movies I actually I want to see getting nominated for a change.
