Stacey Sher, 2021 Oscar Producer, Talks This Year’s Category Controversy: ‘There’s No Right Answer’

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Ashley Hume Producer Stacey Sher, her daughter Maggie Brown and Ashley Greene hosted a benefit for The Pad Project at Veronica Beard’s West Hollywood store on Tuesday night.Held in honor of International Women’s Day, attendees of the event were invited to shop at the luxury boutique, which donated 10% of the profits to The Pad Project and its international programs.Launched in 2013 by a group of students and educators at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles, The Pad Project has evolved from a documentary project following the efforts of a small village in India to destigmatize the conversation around menstruation, into an organization that works to end period poverty around the world.Executive-produced by Scher and co-produced by Brown, the documentary short “Period.

End of Sentence” won best documentary short at the 2019 Academy Awards. At the event, Scher, who produced the 2021 Oscar ceremony alongside Steven Soderbergh and Jesse Collins, was hesitant to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the Academy’s decision to pre-record eight categories ahead of the show.“I’m so not stepping into that,” Scher told Variety. “I love everybody in the Academy.

It’s the hardest job in the entire world and it’s a show, but we are honoring everybody. There’s no right answer on this one.

It’s challenging.’”Scher expounded on the difficulties that she, Soderbergh and Collins faced when producing the show amid the COVID-19 pandemic.“I don’t think people know what it took for us to even have the show last year,” she said. “Two days before, we were almost shut down by L.A.