Skip navigation
Special Events
Cheryl Cecchetto of Sequoia Productions Photo by Special Events
<p>Cheryl Cecchetto of Sequoia Productions gives the press a preview of the 2016 Academy Awards Governors Ball, slated for Feb. 28 after the Oscars ceremony.</p>

Here's Who to Thank: Oscar Winners to Get Thank-you Crawl

To get the housekeeping chores out of the way, the producers of this year&#39;s Academy Awards plan to run a list of &quot;thankee&quot; names that scroll across the screen, freeing up winners to give more heartfelt speeches. But will the new plan work?

Don't you hate it when award winners clamber onstage and then pull out a laundry list of people to thank? The producers of the Academy Awards Oscar ceremony do, too. (A reminder: The Awards air Sunday night.) To get the housekeeping chores out of the way, the producers of this year's Academy Awards plan to run a list of "thankee" names that scroll across the screen, freeing up winners to give more heartfelt speeches. But will the new plan work?

Producers for the Academy Awards telecast Reginald Hudlin and David Hall announced earlier this month that Oscar nominees have been asked to fill out a card with the names of the people they wish to thank. And should they win, those names will be displayed across the screen during their speech. This is an attempt to avoid the numbing roll call of agents, lawyers, managers and producers that mean nothing to viewers at home, in favor of more heartfelt, off-the-cuff effusions of gratitude. It’s certainly a noble effort to allow winners to make better use of their 45 seconds onstage before the first few notes from the orchestra pit signal an impending dismissal. However, everything that can go wrong most definitely will … Fast Company

Hide comments

Comments

  • Allowed HTML tags: <em> <strong> <blockquote> <br> <p>

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Publish