Fitting for a year that Hollywood would rather forget, Sunday night s Academy Awards was a show few will want to remember.
It wasn t all bad: Visually it had some pizazz, at least during the opening tracking shot that made it look like the title sequence for one of Steven Soderbergh s Oceans films. And yes, there was some inspired awkwardness, from winner Daniel Kaluuya celebrating his parents lovemaking to Glenn Close doing Da Butt.
But the changes it instituted stripped away a lot of the things that make the movies great: the magic, the glitz, the escapism, the fun. It was a show that continually told viewers how wonderful movies are but then failed to show what s wonderful about them. It practically dared viewers to watch until the end and then mocked them for doing so.
Loved the venue, hated the Oscars
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By Adam Graham The Detroit News
April 26, 2021
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The trio that put together Sunday night s Academy Awards telecast, from left, Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, as they arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Pool)
Fitting for a year that Hollywood would rather forget, Sunday night’s Academy Awards was a show few will want to remember.
It wasn’t all bad: Visually it had some pizazz, at least during the opening tracking shot that made it look like the title sequence for one of Steven Soderbergh’s “Oceans” films. And yes, there was some inspired awkwardness, from winner Daniel Kaluuya celebrating his parents’ lovemaking to Glenn Close doing “Da Butt.”
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Sunday night s Academy Awards telecast received the ratings equivalent of a Razzie Award, with the lowest viewership audience since data tracking began in 1974.
What Happened: The earliest available data from Nielsen s determined that Sunday s show recorded a dismal 1.9 rating among adults ages 18-49 and 9.85 million total viewers, according to a report in The Wrap. The data was not adjusted for time zones – the live telecast started 8:00 p.m. EDT – and finalized data is not due to be released until Tuesday.
Nonetheless, the early ratings data represented a 64% year-over-year freefall in the key telecast s key demographic audience and a 58% drop in overall viewers compared to the 2020 telecast, which was the previous holder of the record-low viewer attendance for an Oscars show.
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93rd Academy Awards was held on Monday morning, April 26. While the event was held at Los Angeles Union Station, the special segments were broadcasted from the Dolby Theatre.
Chloe Zhao and her film
Nomadland continued making noise at the awards and won big at the Oscars.
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The 93rd Academy Awards was big for women. Chloe became the first woman of colour, and the second woman ever, to win the Best Director award at the Oscars.
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