Did the pandemic kill the Oscars?

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Oscars are supposed to be a celebration for Hollywood, but this year it feels like a collapse: The pandemic has altered the slate of movies up for awards - and, crucially, seems to have removed most of the TV audience for Sunday’s show. Slate’s Allegra Frank and Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson talk to Recode’s Peter Kafka about what all of this means for the movie business and for moviegoers. Then The Ringer’s Rob Harvilla explains why he’s spending a year praising 60 Songs That Explain the 90s on his podcast series, and what it’s like to write music criticism you’re supposed to hear instead of read. Featuring: Allegra Frank (@LegsFrank) , Senior Editor at Slate Alissa Wilkinson (@AlissaMarie) Film Critic at Vox Rob Harvilla (@harvilla) Staff writer at The Ringer and host of 60s Songs That Explain The 90s Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.7	Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.
1:13.6	And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.
1:18.6	This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might
1:28.0	someday do your laundry and wash your dishes. All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you
1:33.4	get podcasts. Welcome to Recode Media, Peter Kafka. That is me. We had a busy news week this week.
1:43.4	We had announcements from Facebook and Apple, which we've covered on recode.net. We had a busy news week this week. We had announcements from Facebook and Apple,
1:45.5	which we've covered onrico.net. We've also covered on this very podcast. And we also had a big
1:50.9	earnings missed from Netflix, which we didn't cover. So let's do that now real quick.
1:55.4	In super short form, Netflix missed its subscriber projections by 2 million people, which is a lot,
2:00.7	even for Netflix.
2:02.0	Netflix has missed before, whenever it does, there's always a question about what it all means.
2:06.2	Usually kind of forget about it over time.
2:08.3	This one's newsworthy and worth thinking about because the question is whether Netflix
2:12.8	has signed up so many people last year during lockdown.
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