That may have been Oscar host Conan O’Brien’s serious wish tonight for the film industry and the world, but it ended up being a pretty good epitaph for Hollywood’s biggest night this year.
For one thing, let’s get it out of the way that all three traits were required for a show that was over 3 hours and 40 minutes long. Sinners star Michael B. Jordan’s Best Actor speech tapped into the same trio of elements in a very different way as he listed off “the people that came before me. Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith.”
Maybe it was the fact that YouTube will be replacing ABC as the home od the Oscars in 2029, but someone somewhere in AMPAS and Disney finally dragged the lumbering show deep into the 21st century.
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