tv echo January 23 Share January 23 (edited) Deleted (content moved to new topic for 97th Oscars). Edited January 23 by tv echo Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8562099
DanaK January 23 Share January 23 The Oscars will do away with Best Original Song performances starting in 2025 https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/oscars/a63520816/oscars-no-best-original-song-performances-2025/ Boo. That’s one of things I watch the show for 1 2 2 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8562108
sugarbaker design January 23 Share January 23 On 1/23/2025 at 1:09 PM, DanaK said: The Oscars will do away with Best Original Song performances Expand Yay! 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8562173
MicheleinPhilly January 23 Share January 23 Oh no! We won't have the opportunity to suffer through another treacly Diane Warren number??? THE HORROR! 😉 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8562183
chitowngirl January 23 Share January 23 On 1/23/2025 at 1:09 PM, DanaK said: The Oscars will do away with Best Original Song performances starting in 2025 Expand And the show will still run over… 1 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8562207
Dimity January 23 Share January 23 On 1/23/2025 at 1:09 PM, DanaK said: The Oscars will do away with Best Original Song performances starting in 2025 https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/oscars/a63520816/oscars-no-best-original-song-performances-2025/ Boo. That’s one of things I watch the show for Expand Same! Well to be honest I never watch awards shows but I do like to see the performances from the Oscars and from the Tony's. Last year's I'm Just A Ken was amazing IMO. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8562219
libgirl2 February 6 Share February 6 On 1/23/2025 at 2:36 PM, MicheleinPhilly said: Oh no! We won't have the opportunity to suffer through another treacly Diane Warren number??? THE HORROR! 😉 Expand Is it just me or do all her songs sound the same? 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8574413
ProudMary February 9 Share February 9 We don't have--or really need--separate threads for the Directors Guild Awards or the Producers Guild Awards, but, as there is some overlap between the voters for those awards and the Academy's voters, it should be noted that Anora's director Sean Baker won the big prize at the DGAs last night. Anora also won the top prize at the PGAs last night. There isn't any overlap between the Academy's voting members and those for the Critics Choice Awards, but it's still noteworthy that Anora won Best Picture there on Friday night, too. It would appear to be a strong frontrunner for BP at the Oscars after this weekend's victories. Full awards lists from both the DGA and PGA awards via The Hollywood Reporter here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2025-directors-guild-awards-winners-list-1236131036/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2025-producers-guild-awards-winners-list-1236131164/ 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8576422
Trini February 10 Share February 10 On 2/9/2025 at 10:42 PM, ProudMary said: We don't have--or really need--separate threads for the Directors Guild Awards or the Producers Guild Awards, but, Expand Just BTW; there is a topic for general 2025 awards season discussion in the Movies subforum (in the Everything Else subforum). 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8576686
sugarbaker design February 10 Share February 10 On 2/9/2025 at 10:42 PM, ProudMary said: We don't have--or really need--separate threads for the Directors Guild Awards or the Producers Guild Awards, but, as there is some overlap between the voters for those awards and the Academy's voters, it should be noted that Anora's director Sean Baker won the big prize at the DGAs last night. Anora also won the top prize at the PGAs last night. There isn't any overlap between the Academy's voting members and those for the Critics Choice Awards, but it's still noteworthy that Anora won Best Picture there on Friday night, too. It would appear to be a strong frontrunner for BP at the Oscars after this weekend's victories. Full awards lists from both the DGA and PGA awards via The Hollywood Reporter here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2025-directors-guild-awards-winners-list-1236131036/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2025-producers-guild-awards-winners-list-1236131164/ Expand Right now, after those three award ceremonies, Anora is the one to beat, it's the undeniable front runner. I wonder if the AI controversies that have plagued The Brutalist have anything to do with this. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8576952
NUguy514 February 10 Share February 10 On 2/10/2025 at 7:55 AM, sugarbaker design said: I wonder if the AI controversies that have plagued The Brutalist have anything to do with this. Expand I think it's a combination of the AI controversies and Brady Corbet's public declarations, which have had an unmistakable air of self-aggrandizement. Also, I liked The Brutalist very much, but it's definitely a movie people might admire but not love. I liked Anora, but I don't think it's that good. However, far worse films have won Best Picture, if it indeed wins BP. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8577144
tv echo March 4 Share March 4 (edited) Oscars Exploring New TV Home After ABC’s Exclusive Negotiating Window Ends By Nellie Andreeva March 3, 2025 https://deadline.com/2025/03/oscars-new-tv-home-abc-exclusive-negotiating-window-1236309797/ Quote It’s Oscar (shopping) season. As we are closing the book on the 2025 Oscars, the Academy is looking ahead to the 2029 edition of the awards show and beyond. Deadline has confirmed with sources that the Academy’s exclusive negotiating window with the Oscars’ longtime broadcaster ABC has lapsed, and the organization is expected to shop the marquee ceremony to other networks and platforms. * * * According to sources, a license-fee increase sought by the Academy is the main reason the two sides are coming out of the exclusive negotiating period without a new deal. Last time around, ABC announced a new eight-year agreement with the Academy in August 2016, three and a half years before the end of the previous deal, which was set to expire after the 2020 Oscars. It has been widely reported that, under that eight-year pact, which is up in 2028, ABC has been paying about $100 million a year for the show. While the Oscars ratings remain formidable, drawing 19.5 million Live+Same Day viewers last year, they are about half of what the ceremony was getting in the 1990s, 2000s and early 2010s. * * * And while ABC and the Academy have been good partners for 50 years — the Oscars has been on the network since 1976 after a couple of back-and-forth switches between ABC and NBC early on — there also has been tension. The network has tried to change the format of the telecast in pursuit of bigger ratings by focusing on popular categories and taking some below-the-line fields out of the live telecast, moves that have been met with resistance. Steeped in tradition, the Oscars have proved not as susceptible to change as for example the Grammys’ main telecast, which has transformed into largely a live concert. According to sources, ABC would like to keep the Oscars, but at a price. Which is what recently happened with the Grammys and CBS, their home of more than 50 years. The Recording Academy also was seeking a license-fee increase, took the Grammys on the open market and eventually landed at Disney via a long-term deal with ABC, Hulu and Disney+. According to Bloomberg, the pact is worth $70M a year. For Disney, it was not Oscars or Grammys, I hear, and the company is still open to retaining the Oscars if another suitor does not snatch the show with a big offer. Deep-pocketed platforms with global reach and live-event experience include Netflix and Amazon, though the latter may prove a controversial choice with its commitment to keeping its movies exclusive to streaming. Expand Edited March 4 by tv echo Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8597624
dmeets March 5 Share March 5 If they can't reach a deal with ABC, I do hope the Oscars still end up on a network or cable channel. Hopefully tech will improve by 2029, but as of now live streaming still doesn't seem to have its shit together. Certainly Hulu doesn't as proven this weekend, but didn't Netflix also have some recent disasters with the Tyson/Paul fight and the Love is Blind reunion? 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8598007
One4Sorrow2TooBad March 5 Share March 5 On 2/6/2025 at 8:27 PM, libgirl2 said: Is it just me or do all her songs sound the same? Expand Diane Warren has penned a number___ of great tunes ,but IMO that one was not of them,lol. Very forgettable . 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8598093
BetterButter March 17 Share March 17 Oscars: Conan O’Brien to Return as Host in 2026 2 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8609606
dmeets March 24 Share March 24 I had a horrible feeling something like this might happen. One of the directors of No Other Land was beaten and abducted from his home in the West Bank. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/285/#findComment-8615911
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