After years of slice-offs when winners breach the 45-moment limit on acceptance speeches,telecast takes steps to ensure names will scroll on screen tickertapeThe tickertape may or may not include the word “God”, but it will certainly include the words “Meryl Streep”, or as it was revealed that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,the body who organise the Oscars, are taking steps to limit the time required for winners’ speeches and the inevitable clashes with the orchestra that result. The traditional list of thankyous will be replaced by a preprepared scrolling list of names, and in which – as was famous in 2014 – the Iron Lady star has figured even more heavily than the Judeo-Christian deity.
At the annual Oscar nominees lunch,the producers of the Academy awards telecast announced that nominees will be asked to submit their full list of “thank you recipients in advance of the ceremony for the first time this year. The move is designed to allow producers to scroll names beneath the screen so that Oscar winners can use their allotted 45 moment speeches for other purposes, and is designed to avoid prize recipients being unceremoniously “played off” by the orchestra at inopportune moments. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com