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Reps for the Academy have pledged that every nominee will be mentioned, every winner will get a moment on the Dolby Theater stage and the home audience will hardly know the difference between the categories handed out during the live telecast and the ones edited into that telecast. Yeah, that has ticked off darn near everyone because folks know their expertise and achievements have been or could be diminished in the next go-around. ACE (American Cinema Editors) have said there are other creative, entertaining ways to shorten the long, painful, dull show because they believe the true fans want to see an evening celebrating “the highest honor in our industry.” That might be true. But maybe - just maybe - those true fans are getting to the age where 8 p.m. is their normal bedtime. Or perhaps it’s like the industry’s highest grossing - and one of our favorites - actors, Samuel L. Jackson, said a few months back, “Oscars don’t move the comma on your check — it’s about getting assess in seats and I’ve done a good job of doing that.” And that’s true, even if you’re watching him in his new, great (our opinion) Apple TV+ series, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. Maybe it’s time for the Academy to do exactly what folks have told HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) to do when the Association and their Golden Globe awards fell into disgrace…”start over from scratch.” The Academy isn’t corrupt like the HFPA was, but it’s just got a lot of excess baggage based on what worked before. Now that MGM has been snapped up by Amazon, let’s cut out the middlemen and have the biggest customers pick the winners and have a bigger – and more expensive - dinner party. After all, award presentations are really for the participants … not the audience.