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Responding on Friday to a critical reaction that had threatened to include Oscars, the Academy of Arts and Film Sciences has canceled its decision to present four awards during the commercial break of the broadcast of the Oscar this year.
After all, the 24 categories will be broadcast live at the 91st Academy Awards on February 24, the academy announced in a statement. On Monday, the academy announced that award-winning speeches for cinematography, film editing, make-up and hairdressing as well as live shorts would be broadcast as recorded footage during the broadcast.
"Nine days before the start of the show, still tweaking the script," tweeted the Academy on Friday.
The academy did not specify whether the change involved a extension of the duration of the broadcast, which, according to the organizers, would be reduced to three hours.
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Many Academy nominees this year, including the director of "Roma" Alfonso Cuaron, and the director of "BlacKKKlansman", the director of "Roma", have been hotly contested. of Cinematographers on Wednesday published an open letter to the academy, signed by Martin Scorsese, Brad Pitt and other writers, calling the shots insulting to the cinematographic arts.
"When the recognition of those responsible for the creation of the cinema of 39 exception is being diminished by the very institution whose purpose is to protect it, so we no longer defend the spirit of the academy's promise to celebrate the film in as a form of collaborative art, "writes the letter.
Wednesday's academy defended the decision and blamed "a chain of misinformation". After recording record ratings during last year's broadcast, the academy has given priority to a faster broadcast in three hours. ABC, which airs the Oscars, plans to premiere a new drama series after the Oscar broadcast, which is consistently ranked among the most watched non-NFL shows of the year.
It is only the last flip The Academy tried to change the Oscars
The headaches of the academy started after last summer had set off the introduction of a "popular film Oscar". This plan provoked such a scandal (Rob Lowe said that the film industry was dead, "Survived suites, tent pegs and vertical integration"), the new price was canceled in one month.
Kevin Hart was announced as the host of this year's Oscars, before retiring a few days later, while many took a stand against his old homophobic tweets. The comedian "first chose to apologize," but Hart finally apologized, leaving the Oscars without a host for the fifth time in his 91-year history.
And after considering limiting the name of the best title. performances, the academy confirmed that all the songs would actually be performed.
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