hollywood by tim parks
THE SHOW MUST GO ON FOR THE OSCARS
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t should go without saying that the landscape of the entertainment industry has seen its core shaken and not stirred, as if residing along the San Andreas Fault with the traditional ways we receive our entertainment offerings falling into its gaping maw.
With movie theatres closed due to COVID-19 and very few movies released in 2020, it didn’t look like we’d have an Academy Awards telecast this year, as there were not even a handful of features shown on the big screen; thankfully streaming platforms like Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Hulu and Netflix picked up the slack in that hangman’s noose.
And, if we did have that auspicious occa- sion – what would that look like? Would the red carpet be a sea of reporters asking actors whose mask they were wearing? Would there even be a red carpet and or actors to populate it with best dressed glamour and even the expected fashion missteps? When the Golden Globes aired in Febru-
ary, the plate tectonics of the expected were overshadowed by the unexpected. In what was essentially one long Zoom call for much of the telecast with its fair share of technical difficulties, and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler practicing the ultimate social distancing by being on opposite coasts, this
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wasn’t your daddy’s Globes telecast, which celebrates TV and film and are notorious for onscreen effects of drinking mass amounts of alcohol. And who, I implore of you, doesn’t love a drunk celebrity? There was some glitz, a bit of glam and also the living epitome of Us Weekly’s proc- lamation that “Stars are just like us!” as Jodie Foster and her wife Alexandra Hedison made pajamas a fashion statement, while Joaquin Phoenix sported a hoodie to present an award and Jason Sudeikis wore one at home to accept his Best Actor in a Comedy Series award. At least Sudeikis’ was an event appropriate tie-dye one, seeing as
he seemed to be partaking of the green a few weeks prior to St. Patrick’s Day. Nudge, wink. Next came the Grammys in March and
there was a little bit of the pageantry that we’ve come to expect with award shows, as stars dressed up and weirdly there was nary a hoodie in sight. Nominated artists like Dua Lipa channeling ‘70s Cher sat masked and distanced at tables outside and thanked people we have no connection to, all presided over by host Trevor Noah. And what does that mean for the Oscars?
Let’s dive in and see how the biggest night for the film industry could pan out!
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