Oscars Going Virtual, Dropping Montages, Nominee Tributes

This year’s Academy Awards ceremony should be a “journey of a show,” according to producer Bruce Cohen. The Oscars are trading in their traditional set designs in favor of virtual projections. “We’re using our environment to take us to different places, different times, and it will change dramatically,” another producer, Don Mischer, told The Hollywood Reporter. The show will feature six or seven scenic transitions over the course of the ceremony, focused on different themes.

The broadcast of the ceremony, which is known to be quite lengthy, will be allowing for all this new-fangled technology by dropping two of the show’s more time-consuming elements. Gone from this year’s Oscars will be the montages that are typically a part of the production as well as the two-year-old tradition of using five presenters to individually honor each Best Actor/Actress nominee.

At least James Franco will be there to guide us through all this craziness. We’d follow him anywhere.

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