Well, the mostly predictable Oscar nominations arrived on Tuesday morning with no disasters or truly egregious missteps. Even the snubs were fairly routine: No female directors, though women won th…
turn into a yawn. But screw something up, and suddenly it’s the Greatest Show On Earth all over again– back on the pedestal, just waiting to be knocked off by the howling crowd.'Till' Director Chinonye Chukwu Calls Out "Unabashed Misogyny Towards Black Women" After Oscar Snub
Errors are an asset. Gaffes are gold. The Academy is never so interesting as when it is just, plain, obviously wrong. This is not a casual mechanism. By and large, average people don’t spend three hours gawking at celebrities in order to admire or be instructed by their betters. Rather, they want to see idols leveled–embarrassed, caught out behaving badly, dressing in poor taste, or ranting like Joaquin Phoenix at a West Texas barbeque. It’s human nature. Pieties and proper judgment are boring. Pratfalls are fun, especially when they catch the glamor crowd taking itself too seriously.ceremony of 2009.
As for nominations-day disasters, nothing can match the back-to-back all-white acting rosters of 2015 and 2016. Those spawned an online movement, and triggered changes in Academy membership and rules that are unfolding to this day. But they also drew more attention than the Oscars have seen since. In fact, no subsequent awards broadcast has matched the audience of those two years, when the Academy was being battered daily by the #OscarsSoWhite campaign.
Alas, trouble pays. The truly memorable Oscar moments were nearly all fumbles and missteps: The Littlefeather lecture, the streaker, Snow White, the Polanski ovation, Franco/Hathaway, that onstage sex offender in 2017, Warren Beatty’s senior moment, the craft crunch, the Pop Oscar that wasn’t, the failed Chadwick Boseman finale.
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