Spielberg opposes Academy Award decision

Theater News Base: The Oscar-winning director, who was nominated for Best Director this year for “West Side Story,” was nominated for Best Director for the Academy’s decision on how to award prizes in the categories of Editing, Original Soundtrack, Sound, Production Design, Face Painting, and Documentary. Criticized short, short animation and short films.

“I disagree with the decision of the executive committee,” Spielberg said. I strongly feel that cinema is perhaps the most interactive medium in the world. We all make films together and become a family in which one art is as necessary as another. The Oscars are neither above nor below this line. “We are all in the same line and presenting our best to tell the best stories we can, which means we all have to sit down to dinner together at 5pm (Oscar time).”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last month that the video will be awarded and recorded at the 94th edition of the 8-Branch Awards, one hour before the start of the live broadcast inside the Dolby Hall. A controversial approach that the academy first adopted in 2018 and then abandoned.

The move comes less than a year after the Oscar’s lowest television ratings were recorded in the history of the awards. ABC television has the exclusive right to broadcast the Oscars until 2028, in an effort to reduce the duration of the Oscars to make them more attractive.

The Academy Awards decision has been met with protests from a number of film institutions within the United States, including the Association of Editors and Recorders, and’s Academy Award-winning sound engineer Tom Fleischmann recently resigned to protest the decision.