The Oscars once favored flashy, time-consuming, glorious stunts. Here are five they should try again
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Video: Oscars For the 70th Oscars ceremony in 1998, producer Gil Cates had an idea: Why not gather 70 Oscar-winning actors and actresses on the stage at once? He unveiled all of them seated, arranged alphabetically from Anne Bancroft to Teresa Wright, and an announcer read each of their names to the audience along with the films for which they won trophies.
The Oscars once favored flashy, time-consuming, glorious stunts that would turn ABC executives to stone if suggested for today’s telecast. But in the name of pageantry and, if for no other reason, the memes, here are five of the kinds of mini-productions we think the Oscars should be pulling off instead of slimming down.
It’s also worth noting, in case you fear that taking 15 minutes to pan a camera past Red Buttons and Shelley Winters might have been ratings poison, that the 70th Academy Awards remain the highest-rated Oscars in history. The supermodel fashion show for Best Costume Design Once upon a time, rather than punt the less starry Oscar categories to a preshow anteroom, the Oscars used to try to snazz the craft categories up. Give ’em a little razzle-dazzle. One of the more famous/infamous of these occasions was the Best Costume Design presentation at the 68th Academy Awards.
And so at the 1992 Oscars, sleekly costumed dancers high-kicked and hip-swiveled to the paranoid urgency of John Williams’s JFK score, while James Newton Howard’s languid music from The Prince of Tides was commemorated by a dozen or so puffy-shirted contemporary dancers floating across the stage.
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