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Hudson assures fans that every category will be celebrated on our live broadcast.
Or as Carly Rae Jepsen would say, they wanna cut to the feeling.
The Oscars are having an identity crisis.
Viewership numbers haveplummetedover the past decade, following overalllive-broadcast viewership trends.
Thats one-third of the Oscars total awards.
Furthermore, these categories often offer the most kinetic and electric moments of each years broadcasts.
And pay attention to which technical categorieswerentchopped from the broadcast: Costume Design and Visual Effects.
God forbid they lose any screen time forSpider-Man,Cruella, andFree Guy.
These are the people who make Oscar ballots and bingo cards and punny food and become overnight sound-mixing experts.
If youre reading this Oscars story on vulture-dot-com, odds are youre one of these people.
But we should probably be grateful for what we have now.
