Are Oscars Playing Catch-Up? No Other Televised Awards Show Presents Every Category Live Either
Oscar watchers, Hollywood guilds that represent the categories in question and even Academy members.But on Sunday, the Film Independent Spirit Awards did the same thing by handing out its editing, cinematography and international-feature awards during commercial breaks, and then slipping edited versions of the winners’ speeches into the final segment of the telecast on IFC. And maybe because the group didn’t talk about what it was doing ahead of time, there was no real criticism of the move, which the Spirit Awards had also done in the past.