[mouseboy33]

I typically watch the Oscars every year. I admit it was a snoozefest this year. It can be truncated in places. But I think people outside the industry/Hollywood/USA dont seem to seem to understand its an industry award show that just happens to be televised for the general public. Its very meta-y and insider-y. So its never going to give awards away to the latest Transformers film or something like that super box officer popular. Its voted on basically by filmmakers, actors and others who are part of the Academy, not the wider public. ITs not the TvQuick Awards. Its never going to happen. That said....

THe show has been much better. To me it goes thru these weird ebbs and flows. Some years it looks fresh and updated and then it back tracks. I believe its down to the network thats broadcasting it. ABC was the broadcaster this year and i didnt like the flow or the look of the programme.

the 2 big LA industry rags wrote articles on the huge ratings the programme got over being on Sky.
Seems like the Jonathan Ross panel got a big thumbs down because of the insenstivy of panel and their lack of knowledge and sheer ignorance

Multiple X users pointed to the absurdity of the panel comparing Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon – a movie that included the murder and torture of Native Americans – to ITV soap Emmerdale.

Thats just shocking!

Here is a article from Variety.
variety.com 

deadline.com