Oscars 2019: The Shape Of Water Director Guillermo Del Toro Slams Academy's Decision Of Cutting Four Categories From Broadcast
Academy announcement of airing four awards during commercial break receives flak from fans and industry.
The Academy Awards recently announced that for the 91st Oscar awards which will be held on February 24, a new format will be in place. Four major categories including editing, cinematography, live-action short and make-up and hairstyling. Ever since the Academy announced this, they have been receiving enough flak on social media from fans as well as industry people. The move was highly criticised by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape Of Water, Guillermo Del Toro. The director expressed his disappointment over Twitter.
Here's what the Shape Of Director had to say:
Fans too have been enraged by this move of the Academy and have been especially against the reasoning of keeping the awards run-time low. Twitter was full of reactions towards this announcement. Oscars 2019: Four Awards Including Best Cinematography and Best Editing To Be Presented During Commercial Break
A posted about why relegating these major categories is unfair:
The Academy may be trying hard to shorten the ceremony but airing major category awards during the commercial break certainly doesn't seem to be the solution.
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