Determined to eliminate the time-honored awards show tradition in which a flustered nominee reaches into his breast pocket or her decolletage for a wrinkled piece of paper and then proceeds to read a list of names until the orchestra strikes up the play-off music, Reginald Hudlin and David Hill, who are producing the 88th Academy Awards, are introducing a new way for the winners to acknowledge all their thank-yous.
Nominees are being asked to submit a list of those they would like to thank should they win in advance of the Feb. 28 broadcast, which will air live on ABC, and then if they are called to the stage, a scroll of the names of those they wish to thank will run across the bottom of the screen.
The producers unveiled the new way for Hollywood’s biggest winners to express their gratitude on Monday at the Nominees Luncheon, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held for more than 150 of this year’s nominees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Fine with it tbh. Thank you speeches are usually either too boring or gimmicky.
Give them 30 seconds to thank the people whom they really want to thank and have the screen role with the mandatory thank you's (to the studio, the producer and the academy) at the same time. Perfect
Interesting, so what are they going to talk about then? How their role saved the world?
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To show what they hoped to avoid, the producers presented a clip from last year’s ceremony in which Dana Perry, a producer of the best documentary short Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, was played off just as she began to talk about the suicide of her own son. To demonstrate the new approach, the producers mocked up a clip of Kate Winslet winning her Oscar for The Reader in 2009, with an accompanying scroll — that looked like a cable news ticker tape — running across the bottom of the screen as she made her way to the stage.
This is dumb. Having text scroll along the bottom of the screen doesn't have the same effect of verbally thanking someone in such an important moment of your career/life.
This is a great idea. I can't be bothered listening a great speech and then they say "oh yeah and thanks academy and my hair and makeup team and my mananger etc etc" like it kinda kills the speech.
