While “coda”, comedy on a family of hearing hearing inspired by “The Aries family”, won the statuette of the best movie, Will Smith, Sacred Best Actor, created an incident by slamming a facilitator.
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Does the Oscar ceremony interests still anyone? It was the fear waving Hollywood, on the eve of the 94 e Awards of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Cinema, Sunday, March 27th. In 2021, the ceremony at Union Union Station Station in Los Angeles was only followed by 10.5 million viewers. Pandemic effect, certainly, but completing a disinterest that has steadily accused from the 1998 record: 55.2 million viewers to follow the coronation of the Titanic, James Cameron (11 Oscars).
With the return of the stars at the Dolby Theater of Los Angeles, the academy hoped, this year, to stem the decline by choosing the theme “The lovers of cinema in unison”. As if to show that the controversies of the pandemic on the absence of women or people of color no longer needed to be facing the closure of the rooms and the disaffection of the spectators, major perils that threaten the industry the cinema. And, also face the competition of streaming, other danger according to some, such Steven Spielberg, one of the most determined supporters of maintaining the border between large and small screen and one of the big losers of the evening 2022.
Under the pressure of the ABC string (Disney group), which retransmates the Oscars each year, the Academy had agreed to shorten the ceremony. Eight price discounts – on the twenty-three – had been prerecorded in the previous time. The decision caused the resignation of some sacrificed professionals of the club of some 10,000 “academicians” who choose the winners each year.
Trio of female comics
The Academy had recovered the tradition of a master of ceremonies to chap the evening. It was a trio of female comics, Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes – “Three women, and it’s even cheaper than a man!” They have ironized. In its opening concern, the Oscars had also used presenters very far from Hollywood: Dj Khaled, who did mine disrupt the opening, and three sports stars, the Snowboarder Shaun White, the Kelly Slater surfer and the skateboard legend Tony Hawk, who presented the tribute to James Bond.
Seven years after providing the #oscarby hashtag for attributing all non-technical Oscars to white players, the Academy has shown that it understood the message. The ceremony opened by the Beyoncé song from Beyoncé – interpreted from Compton, the district of the black revolt, in Los Angeles. Ariana Debose, the Anita of the remake of West Side Story of Steven Spielberg, became the first “Queer Latina” to win the title of better actress for a second role. “To all those who are wondering about their identity and are in a gray area, I promise you, there is a place for us,” she launched.
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