Oscar winners sometimes try the patience of the TV audience of the annual awards show by lacing their acceptance speeches with a long list of “thank you’s.” There’s word now that the producers of the Academy Awards broadcast want to streamline the evening by rolling the thank you list on an on-screen ticker. In this way, the winners, freed of the obligatory thanks to their agent, publicist, lawyer, acting teacher, etc., make a few heartfelt remarks. Brian Steinberg, Senior Television Reporter for Variety says producers want to take out some of the guess work of the evening and that includes limiting the time of the acceptance speeches to 45 seconds.
Every year you have a very major actor or director that gets on and has a long list of people they want to thank and rightly so, but it gets bogged down, it gets a little haphazard, sometimes they forgets somebody or they’re trying to figure out someone they need to remember – it’s a very disorganized section of what’s supposed to be a very organized evening.
Steinberg says producers are still mulling over the idea. Steinberg was a guest on 790 KABC’s McIntyre in the Morning Show with Doug McIntyre and Terrie Rae Elmer.
