On January 14 we found out the Academy is not going the traditional route and will not announce the Oscar presenters prior to the show. Since the winners from the year prior tend to present the awards to their gender counterparts and so forth it wasn’t very hard to assume we could at least count on Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton up there handing out awards.
However, Academy president Sid Ganis has opened up a whole realm of possibilities — please read with sarcasm — as he announced at the annual Nominees Luncheon yesterday that this year’s Oscar show will be “truly different.” This could mean flying monkeys and perhaps the Oscars will take a cue from the Super Bowl and include brief moments of porn as edited by Tyler Durden. What could Sid be thinking?
“Cinematographers, editors, composers. All of you guys. You’re in for a big surprise,” he tells the nominees.
What could be the big mystery? Is it possible the show could be interesting? We’ll have to find out on February 22.
