Oscar Secrets: Behind the Decisions to Change the Show Order, Air Fewer Clips and Bring in ‘Da Butt’

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 5 Episode 11 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired May 12 on Fox.Hanson has been mmm-bop’ed off “The Masked Singer.” The pop star brothers were unmasked on Wednesday’s episode as the Russian Dolls.The trio became the first group to compete on the show; last season, the couple Clint Black and Lisa Hartman performed as a duo under the Snow Owls costume.

Oscars producer Steven Soderbergh is opening up about the controversial decision to switch up the show order of this year’s ceremony. In a new interview with theLos Angeles Times, Soderbergh revealed that he and his fellow producers were trying to do something different given the unusual nature of this year's awards season.«We thought it might be fun to mix it up, especially if people didn’t know that was coming,” Soderbergh said.

When you’re still talking about the Oscars weeks after the ceremony, typically it’s not because we’re shocked about winners and snubs. No, when the discussion keeps going it’s because of some sort of flub or misstep by the show that caused a bit of controversy.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeBellamy Young will be among the first guests to check into “Fantasy Island.” Fox’s reboot of the quirky and often mysterious series has signed Young to guest star as a local TV morning show host with a taste for adventure.And we do mean that literally. In an early episode of the new “Fantasy Island,” Young will play Christine Collins, described as a host with “a simple fantasy.

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late Marvel star Chadwick Boseman, for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Instead, it went to absent nominee The Father's Anthony Hopkins, who wasn't permitted to video call in, resulting in the Oscars closing on an awkward, directionless note.

Oscar producer Steven Soderbergh has confirmed why the Best Actor category was moved to the end of this year’s Academy Awards. Viewers who tuned into the Oscars last month were baffled as to why the evening ended on the Best Actor Award, a decision that rendered the ceremony’s conclusion somewhat anticlimactic.

Oscars, has opened up on the award show’s decision to end on the Best Actor category instead of Best Picture.The 3rd Academy Awards, which took place April 26, notably ended with Anthony Hopkins for The Father clinching Best Actor over the late Chadwick Boseman, who was nominated for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and a favourite in the category.

The Academy was very conscious that Chadwick Boseman was a frontrunner going into the 2021 Oscars.

Haley Bosselman editorOscars producer Steven Soderbergh has opened up about the decisions made to change the show order of the 2021 ceremony and whether he regrets not allowing Zoom acceptance speeches.In an interview published today by the Los Angeles Times, Soderbergh, who served as producer alongside Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins, said he wasn’t aware of the negative response to the lack of movie montages because he doesn’t read reviews.“So the goal was to really do something different and

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeConan O’Brien has an official moving-out date at TBS: His long-running late-night show “Conan” will officially end on June 24.“Conan” will mark the end of its 11-year run with final weeks of shows that will include special guests, leading up to an hour-long finale.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeYou’re not the only one surprised by the sudden announcement of the new “The Simpsons” short “Maggie Simpson in ‘The Force Awakens From Its Nap.'” For executive producer Al Jean and the team behind the long-running animated series, they’re still marveling at how quickly they turned it around.“The Force Awakens From Its Nap,” which premieres at Midnight PT on Disney Plus, came out of an idea that executive producer James L.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Television Academy has unveiled recipients of its 14th Television Academy Honors, including HBO’s “I May Destroy You” and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” The seven honorees also include “For Life,” “I Am Greta,” “Little America,” “The Social Dilemma” and “Welcome to Chechnya.”“During one of the most challenging years in television history, these seven extraordinary programs illuminated and championed some of the most critical

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFresh off her stint guest hosting “The Masked Singer,” Niecy Nash is sticking with the Fox family.

Daniel Kaluuya for a different Black actor minutes after he won an Oscar. Margaret Gardiner, a South African journalist and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, confirmed on Monday (26 April) that she had been involved in the interaction with Kaluuya in the Academy Awards press room the night before.

In the run-up to this year’s Oscars telecast, the folks behind the scenes kept hinting that the event was going to be very different than what film fans have come to expect from the awards show. Dubbing the event a “film” versus an awards show, with a “cast” instead of presenters, it seemed as if ABC and the Academy were hoping to use the pandemic as an excuse to experiment with the format.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAfter strutting into the Oscars framed by a pointedly cinematic aspect ratio, the Los Angeles sunlight streaming in through Union Station’s windows, opening presenter Regina King took the stage of the most unusual ceremony in recent memory and promptly tripped on her gown.

During the opening of the Oscarson Sunday, Regina King made mention of the recentDerek Chauvin verdict. "It has been quite a year, and we are still smack-dab in the middle of it," King began.

Related: ‘It’s wild!’ Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell on making Oscars history “He’s so heavy and so cold,” said Fennell as she accepted the Oscar from Regina King. In an emotional speech, Fennell apologised to Oscars producer Steven Soderbergh for not having written a speech, saying the only one she had written was when she was 10 and much of it was no longer relevant.

Emerald Fennell kicked off Sunday night’s festivities, winning the best original screenplay honor at at the 93rd annual Academy Awards for her Carey Mulligan-starrer Promising Young Woman. The award marked the first Oscar win for Fennell.