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Hulu’s Oscars Stream Stopped Working Before Best Picture
Interrupting Best Actress winner Mikey Madison as she accepted her award.
It couldn’t have happened at a worse time: Mikey Madison was just announced as the winner of the Oscar for Best Actress for her title role in Anora,beating category front-runner Demi Moore. This continued through to the end of the broadcast, so Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal’s presentation of Best Picture to Anora, as well as the acceptance speech and host Conan O’Brien’s closing remarks, weren’t viewable to many. Many humorously drew connections between Sean Baker’s acceptance speech for Best Director (also for Anora), in which he advocated for distributors to prioritize theatrical runs over going straight to streaming, and Hulu seemingly “pulling the plug.”
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