One of the other major goals for this year’s show was that the telecast should be limited to three hours.
In order to help reach that goal, it was reported that only two of the five songs nominated for Best Original Song would be performed.
This also received strong backlash and it was eventually announced that all five songs would be performed (though the word is that “All the Stars” from Black Panther will not be performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA due to scheduling issues), though not in their entirety, and most not by the artists that performed them in the films.