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Posted on 03/21/2026 2:27:54 PM PDT by Twotone
The 13th Academy Awards – the ones where The Philadelphia Story was nominated in six categories – were the first held with sealed envelopes to keep the winners secret. For the very first awards in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel the winners had been announced three months in advance; there were only 270 people in attendance, the ceremony only lasted fifteen minutes and it wasn't broadcast.
For the next decade the Academy did its best to make the awards an event, but they announced the winners hours before the ceremony and in 1939 the L.A. Times published a leaked list of winner before the event had even started. This is when Price Waterhouse was brought in to count ballots and oversee the security around the sealed envelopes and, along with Bette Davis' move to make the presentations a public event and not a private banquet – the most consequential suggestion from her brief tenure as president of the Academy – it helped make the Oscars exciting for over six decades.
You have to wonder what it would take to bring that excitement back to the Academy Awards. Last year's ceremony had a viewership of just under 20 million, less than half of what it was getting at the start of the 2000s, much less than it got in 1998 – the year of peak viewership with 57.25 viewers. The easy answer is that Hollywood should make movies people want to watch.
This years best picture nominees are the usual mix of films made to be nominated (Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Sinners), films the Academy chooses to flatter its creative pretensions (Bugonia, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme), films that make it feel like a citizen of the world (The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value)...
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It’s a great flick.
I like Hepburn. I like Jimmy Stewart. I really like Cary Grant. I never liked this movie.
Hepburn, Tracy, Stewart and ANYTHING with Lucille Ball is immediately turned Off. the worst television ever! 🤮
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