Donald Trump thinks Oscars should change name back to Academy Awards and not be so politically correct
The former POTUS warned the award show that its ratings will only get worse if they keep with the current ridiculous formula.
April 28, 2021 07:33 BST
Donald Trump has made a number of bizarre suggestions to the Academy Awards to increase their ratings, which includes not being so politically correct and boring.
The former United States President issued a detailed statement on Tuesday, two days after the 2021 Oscars was held at the Los Angeles Union Station, and made it clear that he didn t like this show just like he didn t like the last one. What used to be called The Academy Awards, and now is called the Oscars a far less important and elegant name had the lowest Television Ratings in recorded history, even much lower than last year, which set another record low, the statement read.
Satyajit Ray
“Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon,” observed Akira Kurosawa with regards to the Indian master who would have turned one hundred this May. Influenced by the poetic humanism of Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealist movement, Ray self-financed his landmark debut
Pather Panchali the first installment of his internationally celebrated
Apu Trilogy, a cycle of richly humane masterworks that traces its title character’s journey from boyhood to maturity. Over the course of a long, remarkably varied career that encompassed forays into a wide array of genres including period pieces, comedies, detective mysteries, and documentaries Ray applied his compassionate, lyrical vision to explorations of female liberation (
Northern Star
Awards season officially came to an end Sunday after the conclusion of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony. Presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the coveted ceremony gives praise to the year’s best films and those involved in their creation.
As with most events in recent times, this year’s Oscars looked very different. The hostless event traded the ballrooms and galas for L.A.’s Union Station while adding an air of normalcy to the event, with maskless presenters and audience members all gathered indoors. The pre-COVID-19 look was spoken about early on by nominee Regina King, who said those in the audience had undergone rigorous testing and vaccination processes in order to safely gather.
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The headline from
Forbes told us what we pretty much knew: “The Ratings For Awards Shows Are Tanking.” Indeed, the viewership for the last Emmys, Grammys and Tonys ceremonies that were almost entirely virtual and Sunday’s scaled-down Oscars all have plummeted.
But the Forbes headline was from
last February, a month before COVID-19 hit the United States.
There are multiple explanations behind the pre-pandemic declines: too many award shows, indifferent younger viewers, and work and artists often not widely known. Yet there’s a far more logical reason, and you just might be reading this story on its central catalyst, a smart phone.
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