Roughly three weeks ago, the Academy attempted to get their dignity back by postponing the roll-out of the “Best Popular Film” Oscar until further notice. Now if you read the blog that I did last month, you will know that I did not care for the decision, so their choice was for the best to put a hold on the category altogether. Now the Academy “reportedly” did it it primarily give the studios time to campaign for the category in the future and also to clarify rules, so it may re-emerge. Now the CEO of the Academy, Dawn Hudson, gave this statement. “There has been a wide range of reactions to the introduction of a new award, and we recognize the need for further discussion with our members. We have made changes to the Oscars over the years—including this year—and we will continue to evolve while also respecting the incredible legacy of the last 90 years.” Now this is a nice little political statement that doesn’t give us a whole lot of details. The president of the Academy, John Bailey, is reportedly all-in on the idea. That causes me pause. So, if this guy is very high up in the Academy, it worries me that when they usually vote and announce new rules for the Oscars in March or April, I am worried that we will be in the same boat that we were in back in August when they re-announce the Best Popular Film Oscar category AGAIN. There is a possibility that they will call it something else, but I hope that the internet and other people realize that they are just calling the same (unnecessary) category a different name. Although, with the way that the news cycle is these days, they may have forgotten about the original Best Popular Film Oscar in the first place - I still have my worries. What I hope is that the Academy is just saying that it’s postponed just to not upset the two people outside the administration of the Academy and of ABC that are for this category. Now they will continue with the two other changes to the Oscars: moving the Oscars to early February in 2020 and putting and presenting more Oscars during commercial breaks to cut down on the broadcast time. It was announced that the number of categories in the actual broadcast of the show will be between 6-8 categories. To put that into perspective, do you know how many Oscar categories there are? There are 24! So pretty much up to 75% of the categories could be CUT from the show. So, I guess they really want more time to have the next host to pass out and sell girl scout cookies!
Well, thank you all for reading this delayed blog. Now I will tell you that in the next couple months there will be major changes in how I talk about movies. But I’m not in the mood to announce it just yet, so stay tuned! By the way, there is still time to vote for my run-off to my end-of -the-year poll. So, please vote so that I don’t have to do the winner of the end-of-the-year poll for 2017 in 2019. So, once again, thank you very much for reading. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™
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