Saturday, February 8, 2020

Watch the 92nd Oscars!

Natalie and Timothee want to give it to Greta. Will they?

Jane takes the night
off from being arrested. 
The Academy Awards air tomorrow live on ABC at 8PM Eastern. ABC's Official Red Carpet coverage starts at 6:30PM, and there's a post show on the network scheduled for 11:35PM. The network is also doing a special in the afternoon, running from 1PM to 4PM Eastern. I watched these before, and it was surprisingly good. Lots of archival footage and introductions to the nominees. As always, E! will be doing coverage starting at 1PM Eastern, with their official red carpet kicking off at 5PM. They are also doing a post show, scheduled to start at 11PM.

For the second year in a row, there is no host.

Scheduled presenters are Mahershala Ali, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Zazie Beetz, Timothee Chalamet, Olivia Colman, James Corden, Penelope Cruz, Beanie Feldstein, Will Ferrell, Jane Fonda, Josh Gad, Gal Gadot, Zack Gottsagen, Tom Hanks, Salma Hayek, Oscar Isaac, Mindy Kaling, Diane Keaton, Regina King, Shia LaBeouf, Brie Larson, Spike Lee, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, George MacKay, Rami Malek, Steve Martin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sandra Oh, Natalie Portman, Anthony Ramos, Keanu Reeves, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, Maya Rudolph, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Marie Tran, Taika Waititi, Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Wiig, and Rebel Wilson.

Chrissy gets ready to belt the latest Diane Warren nominee.
Slated to perform the nominated songs are Randy Newman, Elton John, Chriss Metz, Cynthia Erivo, and Idina Menzel with Aurora. Billie Eilish and Janelle Monae will also perform.

This ceremony will take place about two weeks earlier than usual. The show will return to its typical end of February slot next year. No idea what that means for the ratings this year, but I suspect we could be in all for another all-time low. I've seen minimal advertising for the ceremony. ABC seems to have really dropped the ball. All the other award shows were down, as was the Super Bowl. Then again, for the first time since 2012 over half of the Best Picture nominees grossed more than $100m. Hopefully, that helps.

Anywho, have fun watching the Oscars!

Mahershala practices handing a blonde woman an Oscar.

Salma with a sexy stand-in

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