“The vibe of it all was amiss.” Vanity Fair’s chief critic rilaws reviews the 94th AcademyAwards ceremony.
. Hall and Schumer were especially game. Hall embraced a loose goofiness—her extended bit about tricking hot actors into joining her for a “COVID test” backstage was a risqué hoot—and Schumer got some surprisingly sharp digs in at the nominated films.
There just wasn’t much of a sense of occasion tonight. In order for these ultimately frivolous awards to seem meaningful, they need to be surrounded, and presented, with more pomp. We need the nervous pauses, the corny introductions, the cuts to mega-stars in the audience reacting with amusement or somber acknowledgment, the swelling orchestra. Hell, we need the stage raised higher above the audience, so that they may gaze up in wonderment just as we are meant to at home.
The best picture nominees were presented individually as sizzle reels, which looked merely like unceremonious, interstitial commercials.
If ABC wants to continue on its mission to make the Oscars feel as noteworthy as the MTV Movie Awards, I suppose it’s up to the Academy to decide if they want to continue to let them. Because the quickest way to really invalidate this whole thing—to really hasten a perhaps natural slide into eventual irrelevance—is to keep putting out broadcasts as flimsy as this one, which properly honored neither the films nor the dedicated fans still willing to sit through the whole thing at home.
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