With the relevancy of the Oscars still in question before this week’s event, writer Michael Schulman explains why they should be examined rather than ignored
at last month’s Baftas. “I thought it was incredibly funny and amusing!” he laughs. “I didn’t know why people were angry about it. Awards season opening numbers are supposed to be out there, maybe a bit schlocky. If Allan Carr’s opening number had been around in the age of social media, it would’ve gotten an even bigger reaction. Can you imagine the memes?! There would’ve been a Snow White’s headdress account on Twitter within the minute.
The final sections see Schulman joining the action as on-site press during the defining cataclysms of the Moonlight/La La Land mix-up in 2016 and Will Smith’s slap last year. In addition to providing context for these moments, both their racial implications and their place in the instant-reaction hot-take complex, he offers a candid vantage on the experience itself. “The Oscars are held in a mall,” he laughs.
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