12 Lessons From a Long and Broken Awards Season From virtual screenings to the HFPA’s implosion to messing with the order of the Oscars show, here’s what we learned in the longest season ever Steve Pond | April 26, 2021 @ 6:30 PM Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars: AMPAS / theater closing, Golden Globes protester: Getty Images AWARDS BEAT This awards season began in confusion more than a year ago, as the COVID-19 pandemic closed theaters, halted productions and caused rule changes that would allow movies that never saw the inside of a theater to qualify for film awards. And it ended in confusion on a small stage at Union Station, when an award that most people thought would go to the late Chadwick Boseman went instead to Anthony Hopkins, who was asleep in Wales at the time, bringing the 93