The 93rd annual Academy Awards were always going to be a bit surreal this year. The pandemic changed many of the usual rhythms and traditions of the Oscars on Sunday night. There was a glamour-filled red carpet but no onlookers or teams of publicists. There were in-person, mask-less winners but not in the usual order, and the speeches were never drowned out with play-off music. Compounding the differences this year was a telecast, steered by producers Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins and Stacy Sher, that wanted a new look and feel to an often stodgy, persistently unchanging ceremony. But what was with that ending? How staged was Glenn Close’s dance? And where, oh where, was the play-off music? Here’s my best try to answer some of the night’s befuddlements.
Oscars 2021 snubbed movie theaters in an hour of need
By not calling audiences to action for traditional moviegoing, the Oscars snubbed struggling theaters in a time of need.
(Nicole Vas / Los Angeles Times)
April 27, 2021 6 AM PT
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As the cinematic experience mounts a tenuous recovery more than a year into the pandemic, one might think that Hollywood’s brightest stars, basking in Oscar glory, would have taken the opportunity to call audiences back to film’s natural home: the big screen.
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If you missed Sundayâs 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, you missed a memorable event. ABC began covering the arrival of stars on the red carpet at the site for this yearâs celebration, Union Station in Los Angeles. The producers of the Oscars had decided against Zoom, so the show was mostly live - with some taped segments, like the nominated songs.
Every year I try to see as many of the nominated films as I possibly can. This year, I spent a lot of time in front of my television set, renting or calling up on Xfinity and Netflix as many of the nominated films as I could. Since I never left my house because of COVID-19, I filled a lot of my time in watching movies.
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