Steven Spielberg hits back at Academy for pre-recording Oscars categories
nme.comDeadline he “feels very strongly” about the decision, explaining he believes filmmaking is a collaborative art and “we should all have a seat at the supper table”.“I disagree with the decision made by the executive committee,” the filmmaker said. “I feel very strongly that this is perhaps the most collaborative medium in the world.
All of us make movies together, we become a family where one craft is just as indispensable as the next.“I feel that at the Academy Awards there is no above the line, there is no below the line.
All of us are on the same line bringing the best of us to tell the best stories we possibly can. And that means for me we should all have a seat at the supper table together live at five.”The decision will see eight categories presented during a pre-recorded segment airing at 4pm before the official start time at 5pm.
The categories affected are Production Design, Sound, Original Music Score, Makeup and Hairstyling, Film Editing, Documentary Short, Live Action Short, and Animated Short.“When I look back and I think without John Williams, Jaws would wear dentures,” Spielberg continued. “With West Side Story, when Tony is singing ‘Tonight’ with Maria, without [Production Designer] Adam Stockhausen he would be singing it on a step-ladder and she would be on the scaffolding, all this on an empty soundstage.
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