So, the video attached below is the “In Memoriam” section from last night’s Oscars.

It registered on two levels with me:

  1. What a dreadful toll the last year has taken: Ian Holm; George Segal; Sean Connery; Max von Sydow; Yaphet Kotto; Olivia de Havilland; Irffan Khan; Christopher Plummer; Hal Holbrook; Helen McCrory; Ennio Morricone; Carl Reiner; Alan Parker; Brian Dennehy; Diana Rigg; Anthony Powell; Michael Apted; Peter Lamont; and Chadwick Boseman, not to mention a host of others.
  2. What a shambolic job the Academy did in presenting the list. Who thought it a remotely good idea to choose a song (Stevie Wonder’s “As”) with varying speeds and then time the pics to the beat? (I’m not very musical, but I don’t think they even got that right at some points). Pictures flashing up subliminally at times, too quickly to read the name! It came across as amateurish and – worse – disrespectful.

It was great that the event happened face-to-face and mask free. But this, together with some other tacky aspects of the show, showed that the Academy need to do MUCH better with the production of a his event next year.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oavHZ0L_vwg

By bobwp

Dr Bob Mann lives in Hampshire in the UK. Now retired from his job as an IT professional, he is owner of One Mann's Movies and an enthusiastic reviewer of movies as "Bob the Movie Man". Bob is also a regular film reviewer on BBC Radio Solent.

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