How to make the Oscars less boring and watchable

 Here are a few ideas that I know I'd, personally, enjoy see happening.

1.  Bring Liza Minelli on stage under false pretenses, then take back her 1972 Oscar so the Academy can properly award it to Sylvia Miles for her brilliant, galvanizing comedy turn as washed-up, horned-up, game show semi-regular, "Sally Todd" in HEAT.

2.  About five minutes after Ms. Julia Roberts shows up on the red carpet, somebody throw a big, rotting meat pie smack dab in her ugly kisser.   And somebody get in real quick with an old-fashioned Polaroid camera so you can take her picture.   Afterwards, the shutterbug auctions off the embarrassing pic for $10,000.

3.  Have a small group of Juliette Lewis fans show up in protest of Juliette not winning the Oscar back in 1992 for "Cape Fear"

4.  Instead of broadcasting the Oscars for last year's movie achievements, just replay the 1976 telecast.   

5.  Overdub everybody's speech with dialogue from "Enter the Dragon"

6.  Give belated recognition to the late, great Holly Woodlawn, star of "Trash" and featuring the scene where she tries to dupe the social worker into believing she is pregnant so she can welfare and be respectable.  George Cukor petitioned for Holly to get a Best Supporting Actress nomination back in 1970.   Very cool.

7.  Pump lots of sodium pentothal into the room, start asking people what they really feel about Meryl Streep and her 21 Oscar nominations.

8.  Have Faye Dunaway, in all her MOMMIE DEAREST getup glory, replace the guy and become this year's Mistress of Ceremonies.      

9. Have Christopher Meloni present an award, wearing nothing but a wrestling singlet and a turban

10.  Have the men come on stage and formally announce that they are sick and tired of all the feminist rantings, the "MeToo" movement and "Times Up", and so all men have gotten together and come up with a full-proof solution to the trod upon ladies' situation, and that is all male members of the Academy have pledged to, for the rest of their lives, exclusively engage in sexual relations with other men only.   Women can turn to each other, or opt-out solo style and make the best of it.   

I would watch it.

Or, Mr. Marvin just cat ballou a whole slew of losers and whiners.

Don't let Jimmy Kimmel host the third time.

-Stop giving all of the awards to Oscar bait

-Start showing equal respect for every genre

-Ban political speeches

-Ban long speeches

-Aside for the death tribute, get rid of the filler in between awards

The most obvious area that needs major improvement is there needs to be less politics involved on the show in speeches and amongst the actual awards handed out to Best Picture etc.

basically they seem more concerned with picking movies based on politics (you can see they really push certain types of movies etc because of their political views) than just a straight up interesting/enjoyable etc movie that those in the academy enjoy watching. those in the academy would be best picking movies based on what they personally like the most instead of largely going based on current politics a large portion of the time as those movies tend to be largely forgotten not long after awards season is over. so while I realize what movies are the most enjoyable to watch will vary from person-to-person, I think the general public would likely connect with them much more if they went into Best Picture nominee's with that mindset instead of nearly all politics like it is currently and has been for some time now.

I think that would get the general public more interested and not only that things would probably be less predictable to which will make for a more interesting show.

p.s. even if they want to go with some movies from a more political angle... they need to keep these to a minimum and if they are nominated don't automatically hand them the win as nominating them would be enough.


@snakeeyes43



I don't mind them sticking to some genres over others, because I think we all have some genres that are crap while other genres are more likely to output higher quality movies etc, but it's pretty obvious many of their choices are based on politics more than their actual enjoyment of movies which I think is what they should be doing when they pick Best Picture nominee's.