Those of us who actually watch the awards embrace the goofiness and grandiosity and bloat of the ceremony. Why can’t the Academy?
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In a little over a month, the Oscars ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC. No matter what happens during the show, here’s what will happen immediately afterward: A day or two following the event, we will be presented with the dispiriting news that viewership, while likely an improvement upon the catastrophic, COVID-curbed numbers of 2021, continues to decline. Whether that news will arrive before we’re done arguing over the quality of the hosts or finding greater meaning in the one surprising thing that will have happened during the ceremony…
