Academy President David Rubin announced that the category presentations to be cut out of the live broadcast are Documentary (Short Subject), Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Production Design, Short Film (Animated), Short Film (Live Action), and Sound.

IndieWire’s own David Ehrlich wrote, “This is like cutting out all the special teams footage during the Super Bowl and insisting that people will be happy since they’re “seamlessly re-editing it into the live broadcast” later. Make the Oscars LONGER you dumb idiots.” Related Oscars 2023: Best Visual Effects Predictions 13 Years Passed Between ‘Avatar’s Because James Cameron Had to ‘Future-Proof’ for the Next Four Sequels Related 17 HBO and HBO Max Original Series to Get Excited About in 2023 The Best True Crime Streaming Now, from ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ to ‘McMillions’ to ‘The Staircase’
Forbes’ Scott Mendelsohn wrote that the move essentially means: “When you willfully piss off many folks who actually watch the Oscars in pursuit of demographics who were never going to watch the Oscars and then wonder why nobody watched the Oscars…” Tomris Laffly said, This is horrific. Surely, mostly crafts categories &/or shorts will be affected. Way to go, @TheAcademy! What you’re basically saying is some awards are less important & don’t deserve the live screen time. A nice f*ck you to those winners. But go off with the fan favorite thing. So without the honorary awards which have long been moved to a non-televised event + few non-televised categories & the fan favorite thing, #Oscars is striving to fall somewhere between the Golden Globes & People’s Choice Awards. Truly embarrassing. Truly bananas that @TheAcademy has no interest in catering to people like me who love the #Oscars, & is instead wasting time trying to win over people who don’t give a shit. Like… I don’t watch the Super Bowl and I don’t expect the Super Bowl to win me over. Why is this so hard?”

Make the Oscars LONGER you dumb idiots https://t.co/uDmUfc0U8c pic.twitter.com/JCW5TKiC35 — david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) February 22, 2022

Truly embarrassing. — Tomris Laffly (@TomiLaffly) February 22, 2022

— Scott Mendelson (@ScottMendelson) February 22, 2022

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 23, 2022

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) February 22, 2022

— Will Mavity (@mavericksmovies) February 22, 2022

They debase themselves in hopes that people who don’t care about the awards somehow will now because you cut some categories? This is shameful and disrespectful to the artists nominated. https://t.co/kFhs6M31Jb — Carlos Aguilar (@Carlos_Film) February 22, 2022 Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.