Put struggling to find a host everyone will approve of, trying to minimize the controversy of that year’s ceremony, and a public increasingly turned off by the ceremony at large, and you’ve got a perfect recipe for why the Oscars telecast isn’t as vital as it used to be.
Every year, it seems to be the same story: ratings are down, people are on Twitter clapping back at the winners, and the Academy will try to do something about it next time.
What was once a social event on the calendar of every movie fan has continued to become an affair that’s reduced to fans just reading the list of the winners the next day.