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Just for the record, I find JQuintana's positions to be quite valid, just as I find Tino's positions to be equally valid. (And Edwin-S. And Jake...And Josh and...) I like reading this debate. You can all be right. That's the beauty of this topic. JQ represents one faction of viewers, Tino...

The film industry reporter for The New York Times questioned 20 anonymous Academy voters about their choices for Best Picture. I don't know that one can draw any conclusions from these comments, but they're interesting nonetheless...

It was ABC that called the meeting, that's why I blame them. If they hadn't called the meeting in the first place and just left their reservations to themselves, none of this would have happened--at least not this year. The time to bring it all up is right after the broadcast, a full year ahead...

Sounds like ABC is at fault. They should have just kept their mouths shut. I think ABC can clean up the whole mess by letting the four chosen awards categories play out in full in real time in the live commercial over-the-air broadcast, from reading the nominees to the winner's speech, and make...

I think you need a stopwatch when you watch the Oscars this year. Most speeches by winners at the Oscars are under a minute. Every so often, someone high-profile or historic runs over a minute or two. (I'm thinking Halle Berry when she won.) There may have been a rare instance or two where it...

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/steven-soderbergh-high-flying-bird-oscars-netflix-interview/582547/?fbclid=IwAR0hlNvDM69Gh3TXNdFP72CAoNs8CFsWfJRsGqspLSMysRRpwlduUxVTb_4 Steven Soderbergh makes several interesting comments about the Oscar broadcast in this interview.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: no need for the short categories--documentaries, live-action, animated--at all. They were only there because once upon a time the studios regularly produced documentaries and short subjects, both live and animated. Check the nominees in the 1930s...

I remember when John Wayne won for TRUE GRIT at the 1970 Oscar ceremony, the story was that Dustin Hoffman (nominated for MIDNIGHT COWBOY in the same category) had a hissy fit and stormed out right afterwards. The feeling was that Wayne got the award as a nod by the Academy to Old Hollywood...

But think how much better (and shorter) it would have been if they'd mercifully cut out Franco and Hathaway as well.

Kyle Buchanan, covering the Oscars for The New York Times, makes a good case for not watching the show at all! https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/movies/oscars-controversy.html