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The main reason why the Oscars can grow so tiresome and boring is because of the acceptance speeches. Many of them drag on as laundry lists of agents, managers, and butlers that the recipient desperately tries to squeeze into his or her thank you, while the orchestra desperately tries to play the winner off.
Now, according to Business Insider, Academy Award producers are requiring nominees to send in a list of people they want to thank ahead of time, so that when they win, each name will run across the screen in something called a “thank you scroll.” They hope that this will make acceptance speeches more “heartfelt and interesting.”
And because we’re all slaves to social media and viral potential in this day and age, producers are hoping for more speeches in the vein of Patricia Arquette’s impassioned support of wage equality, and the Imitation Game screenwriter’s encouragement for people to “stay weird.”
I guess less pressure to publicly thank everybody who has gotten you an audition will allow for winners to pen better speeches. No doubt there will be more room to talk about #OscarsSoWhite at the actual ceremony itself. One could argue that this would result in speeches that try too hard. The best outcome might be if the thank you scroll actually shaved some time off the ceremony’s long running time.
(via Business Insider)
