Oscar Crafts & Shorts Pre-Show Controversy: What Was Said Backstage
deadline.comAs if the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences didn’t have enough embarrassment tonight over Will Smith’s clobbering of Chris Rock, craftsman and filmmakers provided a postmortem backstage on the pre-show that saw eight categories relegated to a taping outside the live telecast.Some took the high road, not wanting to distract from the evening’s win for their or their master filmmaker’s work, while others promptly assessed: AMPAS needs to fix this problem and not shortchange categories again.
Those slots, which were recorded during the 4-5 p.m. PT hour and then peppered into the live show, included Sound, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Documentary Short, Animated Short and Live Action Short.Hollywood Reacts To The Oscar Slap: Physical Assault, Say Many; “How We Do It”, Says Jaden Smith“Does anybody want to ask me about what it’s like as an irony, that, as an editor, my speech was edited tonight?” Oscar-winning Dune film editor Joe Walker to the press room.He went straight into an answer.“It went down well, I thought, the speech.
And yet I saw it go out, and they cut the beginning, the middle and the end of it,” complained Walker.Oscars TV Review: Will Smith’s Unscripted Slap Of Chris Rock Turns Stumbling Show Into Stunning Spectacle“And that’s an irony,” he added. “We all stand together in the Academy with equal strength and I feel strongly that was a disservice to our eight categories that were not televised live.”Walker’s win was one of six for Warner Bros./Legendary’s Dune, which also took home trophies for Production Design, Original Score, VFX, Sound and Cinematography.
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