Live Blog of the 94th Academy Awards – CB

Welcome to Oscars Sunday, and what a reduction it’s for Oscar watchers all over the place to write down these phrases after yet one more elongated season. This 12 months’s Oscars present is a month later than it ought to be, but when present producer Will Packer has used the additional runway to ship the Oscars present to finish all Oscars exhibits, nicely, few appear to have a lot religion he’ll pull it off. In truth, there’s an actual fear that it could be the Oscars present to finish the Oscars.

And the overriding concern? That eight of tonight’s classes gained’t even be offered reside in the course of the ABC telecast, which begins at 5 p.m. PT, because the Academy makes an attempt yet one more controversial pump of scores CPR. As an alternative, as stars nonetheless shuffle into the Dolby Theatre, these eight awards will probably be handed out by Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin starting at 4 pm. Edited highlights of speeches—which appear unlikely to function the phrases of protest we hear are on the best way—will probably be peppered into the principle present. However we’ll solely know who’s gained after they do as a result of the Academy will tweet the unembargoed outcomes. CB has heard that not even journalists within the press room can have entry to this forgotten hour of the present. Solely these within the Dolby will ever witness them reside and unedited. Such irony, contemplating one of many excluded classes is… Modifying.

Nonetheless, we’re kicking off our annual liveblog in time for these classes, as a result of they’re a fully-fledged a part of Oscar night time to us, even when to not the Academy. Now we have positioned ourselves nicely: Joe is totally arrange a stone’s throw from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Mike, in the meantime, is in… Scotland. 5000 miles away. Having a stunning time at St. Andrew’s Movie Competition. On Oscar weekend. No, none of his colleagues are certain why both.

We’ll be making an attempt to convey you as a lot details about what’s occurring in that first hour courtesy of our indefatigable man on the bottom, Pete Hammond, who will probably be sending us illicit dispatches from contained in the Dolby. And naturally, we’ll cost full steam forward when the present kicks off on ABC, celebrating the winners, reeling on the surprises, and scrutinizing each minute of the present in quest of justification for this 12 months’s tranche of adjustments. Joe will, as regular, be making an attempt to sidestep Mike Fleming’s references to his beloved British rom-coms. And Mike will probably be making an attempt to remain awake, contemplating the present correct doesn’t begin till 1 a.m. native time in Scotland. Fortunately, different CB staffers are poised to chip in as and when. And, sooner or later, our roving reporter Antonia Blyth will decamp from her spot on the world’s starriest pink carpet to tell us what she’s heard.

Internet hosting the large night time: Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Corridor, the primary Oscar hosts since 2018’s Jimmy Kimmel affair. How will they strategy the gig? After which there’s an virtually full sweep of Authentic Track performers to serenade us. Just one has been omitted—Van Morrison for his unique music from Belfast—maybe due to the Northern Irish singer’s controversial stance on Covid vaccinations. His efficiency will probably be changed with a rendition of that prompt Encanto favourite: “We Don’t Speak About Van Morrison.” Or “Bruno.” Whichever.

Will all these restored bells and whistles after final 12 months’s uninteresting Union Sq. affair add the mandatory leisure worth to make sure we aren’t mainlining caffeine earlier than we even get to In Memoriam? Be part of us beneath as we discover out, and do be sure you add your individual voice to the feedback. One of the best of them could even make it into the weblog.