Oscar Winners Speak Out on Live-Telecast Category Cuts: ‘I Hope This Is the Last Year’

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe CMT Music Awards aired for the first time on CBS and Paramount Plus Monday night, drawing 5.16 million viewers for the live telecast in early Nielsen numbers, which is up 521% from last year’s show on Paramount-owned cable channel CMT.The 5.16 million total viewer tally accounts for both linear ratings on CBA and live streams via television sets for Paramount Plus and other digital CBS platforms. The final Live + Same Day ratings for the 2022 CMT Awards, including out-of-home-viewing, will be released later Tuesday.

Kevin Spacey has filed yet another motion in federal court in his ongoing battle with actor Anthony Rapp over alleged sexual abuse.

Actor Kevin Spacey asked a judge Friday to throw out actor Anthony Rapp's sex abuse lawsuit, saying through his lawyers that allegations that he abused the then-teenage Rapp at a 1980s party are false. The lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that the alleged events Rapp described never occurred. Rapp has appeared in "Rent" on Broadway and in "Star Trek: Discovery" on television.

The 2022 Oscar Winners and Nominees

IndieWire about his experience of the ceremony.Alongside sharing details of meeting Zendaya and Al Pacino, Almodóvar wrote that he felt “absolute rejection” at seeing Smith slap Chris Rock onstage. The “King Richard” star hit the comedian following a joke he made at wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s expense.

By now, everyone has weighed in on Will Smith and Chris Rock slapping at the Oscars. 

was certainly not the biggest takeaway from an eventful evening. But the new format was met with disapproval from audience members, fans watching at home and Oscar winners in the below-the-line fields.The eight awards presented ahead of the live show were rattled off in little over a half-hour to an auditorium at the Dolby Theatre that was roughly half-full.

this year's winners is perhaps more impressive now than ever before. Despite 27 nominations, Netflix left Sunday's ceremony with one Oscar won by Jane Campion who became the third woman to win Best Director for her film Disney+ meanwhile, won for  (Best Animated Feature Film),  (Best Documentary Feature), and  (Best Costume Design). For the second year in a row, every Oscar winner is available to watch at home. Here’s a complete guide to where you can stream this year's Oscar-winning films online. If you didn’t get a chance to watch the 2022 Oscar nominees before the Academy Awards or you need to re-watch the magnificent stories, here's where to watch more of the Oscar-nominated films.  Where to Watch 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' — Now Streaming Save Up to $4,000 on 8K Neo QLED TVs at This Weekend's Samsung TV Sale Samsung's First QD-OLED TV Has Arrived: Pre-Order the 2022 Lineup Save Up to $500 on Samsung's Top-Rated Frame TV Today Oscars, GRAMMYs and More: Everything You Need to Know About the 2022 Awards Season  

An award season like no other has finally come to a close with the 94th Academy Awards rolling up the virtual red carpet on a year of movie-watching at home. Today, the latest crop of winners are basking in Oscar’s glow, getting ready to tackle their first post-win projects.

While streaming has been poised to elbow traditional theatrical releases out of the Oscar spotlight, tonight’s results are offering a modest rebuke to that narrative.

Even as Oscar nominees arrived on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre this afternoon, their ire did not cease over the Academy’s decision to push eight categories to a pre-taped portion of the show.

everything.Whether they’re winners or presenters, A-listers have taken to the Academy Awards stage year after year, decade after decade, to voice their opinions on matters that plague the globe, hoping to enlighten the worldwide audience on whatever issue they feel so strongly about.The prestigious Oscars podium has become a designated, glorified soapbox for the so-called Hollywood elite to chime in on controversial topics including Hollywood’s gender pay gap, oppressed people’s rights and climate change — all subjects that have found their spotlight on the Dolby Theatre stage. This year’s star-studded ceremony — set for 8 p.m.

Marvel and DC Comics have been two warring companies for decades with both of their unique, action-packed superhero stories and crime-fighting characters. As of February, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has produced 27 films while the DC Extended Universe has only created 11 movies. DC’s projects have grossed over $5.8 billion and the MCU scored bigger bucks with $25 billion.At the same time, acclaimed directors such as Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese have bashed the genre.

Space Jam: A New Legacy and the Netflix version of the Princess Diana Broadway musical, Diana, took home the most Golden Raspberry Awards at this year’s event.The 42nd annual awards – also known as the Razzies – is a tongue-in-cheek response to the Oscars which honours the worst films of the year. Recent winners include Cats, The Emoji Movie, and Sia‘s autism drama Music.Diana: The Musical, which made Cats “look like a masterpiece”, according to a Razzies press release, won in five categories, including Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay.It also picked up “tacky, gold-spray-painted statuettes” for Worst Actress (Jeanna de Waal as Princess of Wales), Worst Supporting Actress (Judy Kaye in a dual role), Worst Director (Christopher Ashley).Another big winner was Space Jam: A New Legacy, the follow-up to the Michael Jordan-starring 1996 film. More of a remake than a sequel, a Razzies press release referred to the Lebron James-starring film as a 115 minute commercial for all things WarnerMedia.

Deadline today confirmed with Oscar telecast producer Will Packer that Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa will present the eight awards that will be, for the first time, handed out before this year’s live telecast instead of during the telecast. The duo had been reported to be in talks to present the segment, but Packer confirmed the final agreement to us at the Governor’s Awards today.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhat is going on over at the Academy? For years, I have questioned whether it made sense for the organization to continue awarding short films, seeing as how they are no longer a routine part of the moviegoing experience (the category dates back to a time when newsreels and short subjects regularly preceded the main attraction). Except in rare cases, when an animation studio attaches one to its latest feature-length cartoon, it’s been decades since shorts got serious theatrical play. These days, they’re relegated to film festivals and small-screen formats — so why include them in the telecast, I wondered.I was wrong.