As the Academy is assigned For their 97th ceremony, many long-standing Oscar-winning are wondering how this year's Konan O'Brien will vary from those of the last decade. The Academy has certainly been a lot since 2015. There was the highest call for the best picture in 2017, a three -year experiment for no hosts and and The full -volume debacle of 2022 (4-hour and 23-minute difficult temptation where weak lights included three very funny women tricky by sharing hosting duties, eight awards were awarded while attending the red carpet, and Will Smith smeared Chris Rock). The last two JiMi Kimmel ceremonies were not, in fact, (the ratings were even broke up for last year's broadcast), but, as always, there is hope that this year's match can be a little more fun, a little less self-just- satisfied and hope , much shorter than usual.

The ABC has been fighting the question of length for centuries and really should watch the 3-hour and 23-minute show in 2024 as a victory. I have been watching the Oscars since the early 80's, and in length, I don't think you can produce a tougher ceremony than this. I have a feeling that they will run a little longer this year, due to the Academy's plan to celebrate the city of Los Angeles ahead of the devastating fires in January, which is obviously a good thing. In this spirit, I will ask, as I do every year, that the Academy is doing something that may sound a little crazy: please, for a year, a little ease and don't be so fast to break the speeches of the winners with play- Off music from the orchestra. It is a groom if it is not purely cruel and, after attending my part of the watch parties, does not play well with the crowd.

If you are wondering who makes a call to hit the band and move on to the next segment, you may be surprised to learn who is no Responsible.

If you are lucky enough to have ever won a competitive award Academy, a) greetings and b) running, especially if you have triumphed in one of the categories of shorts. In the minute your name is called, you are on a 45 -second watch to hit the scene and give your speech. There are no exceptions to this. If you have a problem getting someone in your order, you should start with the priority of the ASAP names. Friends and family members you planned to call them are likely to be left out. In some cases, you may be lucky enough to exhaust your parents and agents; If you share the Oscar, you may not say anything.

Who is responsible for this? According to the former conductor of the Orchestra of the Academy Bill Ross In an interview with the Washington Post"People think it's the guy with the baton that makes that call and assure you it's not." The culprit in almost all cases of collecting profit-f ***-Music outside the phase is a director. "I felt so terribly so many times," said Don Mischer, co-producer of the Oscar ceremonies in 2010 and 2011 (you can thank JamesiMs Franco-An Hathaway-host). "It's one of the highlights in their lives. It is something they will tell their grandchildren. "

Of course, we saw winners to successfully miss the orchestra. No one has done it better than Cuba Gooding Runior to this day, who, after winning the best actor to support Jerry Maguier in 1997, conjuncted his lively orator of his character Rhidwell and brought the audience to its feet; Stunning, the orchestra actually went crazy to match his screaming delivery. Most people do not have that kind of fire or flammability in them, but I think the Oscar executives have enough time to start the clock by 45 seconds after the Oscar is in hand. Winners know ahead of time, they are not there to give a regist. Because this is where you can get the kind of resonant human emotion we love from movies (As the Athonatan Glazer delivered in 2024). It is worth an extra 10 minutes or so.