Live and for free.... for now................The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that it signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars until 2033.
The Oscars, which is planned for 15 March, has aired for a half a century on ABC. Starting in 2029, the show will be available live and for free on YouTube.
It's another big shakeup in Hollywood, which is dealing with studio sales and mergers, along with steep production cuts.
Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029
Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kpr0dg130o
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22
Re: Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029
It's all about who will pay the most to broadcast or stream the Oscars. YouTube will make a ton of money selling commercials/ads during the show.
For me, it doesn't matter because I don't watch the Oscars. I'll read about it online the next day to see who won.
For me, it doesn't matter because I don't watch the Oscars. I'll read about it online the next day to see who won.
When you vote left, you vote right.
Re: Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029
How times have dramatically changed
Re: Oscars moving to YouTube in 2029
The Oscars used to be more fun. Last time I went, there was something like a half-mile security perimeter around the ceremony, and everyone who got through was screened one way or another. Of course, the last time I went, there were still plenty of Hollywood brats using someone else's tickets in attendance. You got to see what your friends looked like wearing a rented tux.
The really good ones were at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. That's REALLY going back. I was in frickin high school, if you can believe I was ever young. They'd try to disguise it, the Civic, not the high school, but it was still just the same old place where we watched the surf movies the rest of the year. Unpretentious. Gritty Hollywood is far better than glittery Hollywood. Reality is good for the soul. More to the point, the TV and media could take it over for a few weeks without spending a bundle. Even then, "Hollywood" had seen better days.
In a venue like that, you can't take yourself as seriously as you can in the current Hollywood upper-crust whoopie-do venue of the sort where we'll be lucky if they don't rename it as Trump Hall. Once in the really early days at the Civic, I was drafted to get a photo of a celeb friend getting out of my father's car (borrowed, to save money on a limo, back when you could do that) pulling up at the Civic and doing the oooooh look it's a celebrity interview thing. I got through the really minimal security with my telephoto lens just fine even though it looked like an anti-tank weapon. Somewhere around here there's an Ektachrome of my father's car at the Oscars. Oh, and the celeb too, talking to the TV host, but who cares about those?
Do they even MAKE Ektachrome any more? They used to shoot features on the stuff. They also used to let civilians within a mile of the Oscars. Plus ca change.
The really good ones were at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. That's REALLY going back. I was in frickin high school, if you can believe I was ever young. They'd try to disguise it, the Civic, not the high school, but it was still just the same old place where we watched the surf movies the rest of the year. Unpretentious. Gritty Hollywood is far better than glittery Hollywood. Reality is good for the soul. More to the point, the TV and media could take it over for a few weeks without spending a bundle. Even then, "Hollywood" had seen better days.
In a venue like that, you can't take yourself as seriously as you can in the current Hollywood upper-crust whoopie-do venue of the sort where we'll be lucky if they don't rename it as Trump Hall. Once in the really early days at the Civic, I was drafted to get a photo of a celeb friend getting out of my father's car (borrowed, to save money on a limo, back when you could do that) pulling up at the Civic and doing the oooooh look it's a celebrity interview thing. I got through the really minimal security with my telephoto lens just fine even though it looked like an anti-tank weapon. Somewhere around here there's an Ektachrome of my father's car at the Oscars. Oh, and the celeb too, talking to the TV host, but who cares about those?
Do they even MAKE Ektachrome any more? They used to shoot features on the stuff. They also used to let civilians within a mile of the Oscars. Plus ca change.
"We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation." --Liz Cheney, Republican, 7/21/22