oscars – THE HORROR REPORT

Death of television! YouTube takes the Oscars

You better keep ABC’s name out your YouTube mouth

Are you excited about the Oscars on YouTube starting in 2029?
Oh, you didn’t know? That might be because no one has really been excited about the Oscars for many years now.

And yet, entertainment rags across the world are insisting that the decision to move the Oscars from ABC to YouTube will send shockwaves through the entertainment industry. Maybe the Netflix deals have already done more damage than this ever could, but the fact remains that a streaming platform will now be the exclusive home of the Academy Awards. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, this feels like another official nail in the coffin of traditional television.

Everything tends to come full circle. Maybe in a hundred years we will all be back to basic cable again, proudly announcing that the Oscars are airing on Channel 13 once more. But for now, the future is here. Beginning in 2029 and running through 2033, YouTube has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast not only the ceremony itself but everything that comes with it. What that ultimately looks like remains to be seen.

The truth is, the excitement surrounding the Academy Awards that existed in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s has steadily faded over the last quarter century. Most of the time, people have not even seen the movies nominated for the golden statue, let alone felt connected to them. The films being celebrated often feel foreign to the general audience, while the movies people actually watch are rarely acknowledged. And horror? Forget it. That genre has never really been invited to the party.

As part of the newly inked deal, YouTube will broadcast not only the Oscars ceremony itself, which generated roughly 150 million dollars in revenue for the Academy during the fiscal year that ended June 30, largely through the television rights deal with Disney, but also a significant amount of related programming.

That additional content will include the red carpet preshow and behind the scenes coverage, the Oscar nominations announcement, the Governors Awards where honorary Oscars are presented, the Oscars Nominees Luncheon, the Student Academy Awards, the Scientific and Technical Awards, and interviews with Academy members and filmmakers. Film education programs, podcasts, and other supplemental content will also live on the platform.

Whether this move reinvigorates the Oscars or simply confirms what many already believe is another question entirely. What is clear is that the way we experience Hollywood’s biggest night has permanently changed.

This is a message to the Academy: Are you still afraid of the dark?

The Academy Awards hates horror.. it’s going to be amazing if they nominate ‘Sinners’

Apparently they are despite the fact that we’ve never seen the movies they tell us to..

If Ryan Coogler’s Sinners or Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein make the cut this year, it’ll mark the first time in the Academy Awards’ 97-year history that a horror film has been nominated in consecutive contests.

And honestly—maybe that’s one of the main reasons people have stopped caring about the Oscars.

Sure, we’ll talk about who wins, we’ll share the highlights, we’ll glance at the “Best Picture” list. But let’s be real—most people haven’t even seen these movies. A lot of them are the kind of films critics love and audiences sleep through. Pretentious, overly symbolic, and sometimes just flat-out unwatchable.

Meanwhile, the movies that actually get people talking? They’re the ones with life, adrenaline, and imagination. The action blockbusters of summer. The horror movies that get under your skin.

Take The Black Phone 2 — we just reviewed it, and it was epic. Masterfully done, deeply unsettling, and emotionally sharp. Even Weapons — which wasn’t our pick for the best of the year — had a cinematic energy that felt alive. And yes, Sinners was powerful too. It brought real weight to the horror genre this year.

But that’s the thing: horror has been delivering for decades, and the Academy just refuses to acknowledge it. From Hereditary to The Conjuring, from Get Out to The Black Phone, horror consistently gives us stories that are bold, imaginative, and yes—crowd favorites.

Yet when award season rolls around, horror is treated like the weird cousin who showed up uninvited.

So, if Sinners or Frankenstein manage to claw their way into the Best Picture category, kudos to the Academy for finally giving the genre a little respect.

But don’t hold your breath for the next one. History tells us it might be a long, dark wait before the Oscars dare to honor horror again.

“The Oscars claim to celebrate cinema. But when’s the last time they celebrated fear?”

Maybe this year. For the last time of course.

Rumors swirl: Will the Oscar’s be canceled?

The Oscar’s Academy Awards awards ceremony is on the verge of being cancelled for the first time in its 96-year history because of the deadly wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles.

Official Academy Award committees are monitoring the situation daily, led by stars including Tom Hanks, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg.

Media outlets are reporting that the debate now consists of whether to move the Academy awards to New York City or another location or due to the glitzy glamorous nature, the awards bring on just cancel them all together due to the current situation in Los Angeles..

Developing ..

GAGA FOR THE GALA? OSCAR RATINGS RISE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS

ABC reports that 29.6 million viewers tuned into the Oscars, scoring a 7.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic. That makes it TV’s most watched entertainment telecast in two years, and the first rise in viewership since Ellen DeGeneres hosted in 2014.

It’s also up in total viewers versus last year’s 26.5 million—an all-time low for the Oscars—and up 13% in the demo.

Good news for the ACADEMY …

Now if only they could do something about movie theater audiences..

The best picture Oscar award does not matter…. NO one remembers who even wins it!

The 90th Academy Awards big winner of 2018, Guillermo Del Toro’s fantasy drama The Shape of Water, was correctly identified by only 20 percent of respondents in the survey as the Oscar best picture victor. (The nationally representative poll of 2,201 adults was conducted from Jan. 3 to Jan. 6 this year.)

Among the 2017 nominees, more respondents thought the Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling musical La La Land won best picture (20 percent) than the actual winner, Barry Jenkins’ drama Moonlight (12 percent). That year at least included an infamous mistake that caused confusion — Envelopegate, where, due to a mix-up, La La Land was unveiled as best picture by presenters before the right envelope was read several minutes later to crown Moonlight.

MORE And more proof that the best picture nomination and award could not matter a hill of beans.. Horror and fantasy, with action, prevail in the minds and habits of the viewing public… the best picture is limited to the elite who earn it. Not the masses of asses who view movies..

Newly uncovered photographs not only show Cullinan engaged on his phone shortly before the “La La Land” miscommunication at the Oscars, but he’s also photographed mixing two red envelopes backstage alongside Beatty and best actor winner Casey Affleck, who had just exited the stage, which would dispute PWC’s official explanation that Cullinan grabbed the wrong envelope from a “backup pile,” and shows he was likely always in possession of both the best actress envelope (which was given to presenter Warren Beatty) and the best picture envelope, the night’s two final awards!

Newly uncovered photographs not only show Cullinan engaged on his phone shortly before the “La La Land” miscommunication at the Oscars, but he’s also photographed mixing two red envelopes backstage alongside Beatty and best actor winner Casey Affleck, who had just exited the stage, which would dispute PWC’s official explanation that Cullinan grabbed the wrong envelope from a “backup pile,” and shows he was likely always in possession of both the best actress envelope (which was given to presenter Warren Beatty) and the best picture envelope, the night’s two final awards!:

LA LA LAND….

HOLLYWOODLAND

This entire situation reminds of me NAKED GUN 33 1/3

OSCARGATE!!!The conspiracy theories abound.Last night now,…

OSCARGATE!!!
The conspiracy theories abound.

Last night now, without question, one of the strangest events in Hollywood history played out on LIVE TV for the world to see.. a movie announced as the winner. And the winner announcing another as disarray filled the stage.

This reporting from BUSTLE on the conspiracy theories that are abounding online:

According to Marc Snetiker of Entertainment Weekly Emma Stone said she had her Best Actress card on her person the entire time. “I also was holding my Best Actress in a leading role card that entire time, so whatever story… I don’t meant [sic] to start stuff, but whatever story that was, I had that card,” she reportedly said backstage after the Oscars.

An explanation from The Academy could also explain some things. As Bustle’s Lia Beck wrote: “There are two people who knew the winners before they were named, Brian Cullinan and Martha L. Ruiz, from the accounting firm PwC.” Jarett Wieselman of Buzzfeed pointed out on Twitter that Cullinan told MarketWatch before the show:

From a security perspective, we double up everything. That’s why there’s two of us. We have two briefcases, that are identical, and we have two entire sets of winning envelopes. Martha carries one of those briefcases, I carry the other.

With two sets of awards, no wonder things got a little chaotic. But envelopegate, as it has now been dubbed, may require a more creative explanation. Because if Twitter is good for anything, it’s showcasing the best — and worst, and craziest, and most unbelievable, and… you get it — conspiracy theories on the web.

The high degree of celeb strangeness has been at the top of the fold on Drudge all day..

Insiders are perplexed .. gossip columns are content.

I wish I could be a fly on the wall of Nikki Finke’s bathroom now more than ever..

WARREN BEATTY BLEW ITHollywood snaps at Oscars and calls it the…

WARREN BEATTY BLEW IT

Hollywood snaps at Oscars and calls it the biggest disaster in award history..

The presenters for the final award — Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway — were incorrectly given the best actress award envelope. A confused Beatty saw Emma Stone’s name and “La La Land,” and handed the envelope to Dunaway, who then announced the musical as the Best Picture winner.

The “La La Land” cast took the stage and producers began their speeches. But they stopped midway when they realized their error.

“There’s a mistake. ‘Moonlight’ you guys won best picture,” Jordan Horowitz said to the shocked Dolby Theater audience. “This is not a joke, come up here” the producer added. “Moonlight has won best picture.”

Beatty then returned to the microphone to explain: “I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone, ‘La La Land.’ That’s why I took such a long look at Faye and at you. I wasn’t trying to be funny.”

Here is the video while it lasts..

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DINESH ROBBED AFFLECK AT RAZZIES!

My opinion doesn’t amount to more than a hill of rotted beans, but I think this year’s Razzies Award pick for ‘worst’ film is the ‘worst’ pick they could have chosen.. It went political. The movie yielding the the banner of worst of 16: HILLARY’S AMERICA by Dinesh D’Souza..

The annual tongue-in-cheek Razzie awards, which serve as an antidote to Hollywood’s Oscars ceremony, named Dinesh D’Souza’s “Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party” as the worst film of 2016. D’Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, was named worst actor for narrating his documentary and worst director alongside Bruce Schooley. Worst actress went to the person who portrayed Clinton in the film.

I get that Hollywood is anti-Trump, pro Hillary.. I understand that this is their time to make statements.. But I am increasingly wary of how political EVERYTHING is .. Even the Razzies, the awards meant to poke fun and be sarcastic to Hollywood. Instead it’s given Hollywood a vehicle to poke at Trump. Which is fine. Which is dandy. But it’s also getting obnoxious. I just want to go through a day without seeing anything about Donald Trump, or politics.. Just one day. 24 hours.. A cycle of freedom and beauty! But it will never abound. Instead, it’s everywhere.. it surrounds us.. it inhabits us.. it precludes us from sanity.

The Razzies gave BATMAN VS SUPERMAN four awards. If it wasn’t for the political statement that was being made, Affleck’s awful disasterpiece action film would have been the sound winner for worst movie in 2016. It would have been well deserved. BATMAN VS SUPERMAN featured an array of boredom coupled with a sickening and dazzling display of non-creativity. It was the worst movie of 2016.

Dinesh D’Souza robbed Affleck!

I don’t care if it rains or freezes as like as the Oscars has Plastic Jesus

Welcome to Hollywood.. where apparently even the Oscar statue snorts cocaine..

It is actually a message of art being sent by the artist PLASTIC JESUS..