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What If We Took a Year Off From Kvetching About the Oscars?
The 2025 ceremony seems like it will go on as scheduled. How should it address the tragedy in its own backyard?
( THR reports that the Academy is aiming for a “dignified” telecast that would “raise funds for and celebrate fire relief efforts.”) When that happens, I hope those of us not in Los Angeles can resist the urge to slam them for not embracing whichever specific plan we personally think is best; it is the fear of such reactions that often keeps institutions paralyzed. I also suspect that the next six weeks are going to see a more intense version of the usual psychodrama we witness this time every year: grumbling that awards ceremonies are pointless from people who would never watch them; kvetching about the telecast’s declining ratings that pretends this is a phenomenon specific to the Oscars rather than a universal trend; apocalyptic pronouncements about the future of movies. Last week the DGA handed Ross a best-debut nomination rather than the real thing — never mind that he’s a previous Oscar nominee in Documentary — and on Thursday Jomo Fray’s inventive first-person photography was snubbed by the American Society of Cinematographers, who gave Nickel Boys a consolation-prize nom for their Spotlight award.
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