The Oscar hour

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The annual Oscar hour. Kurt Andersen starts it off with his takeaway from this year’s crop of nominees: some actors delivered great performances in films that overall were not so great. Then Kurt talks with Richard E. Grant about his nomination for "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and some of his other memorable roles, including in “Withnail & I.” Finally, the invaluable yet seldom acknowledged job of a movement director, namely Polly Bennett, who helped Rami Malek embody Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.2	I'm Kurt Annes.
0:10.9	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.2	This first level of garden.
0:14.5	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.4	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.1	Very well done.
0:19.2	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.9	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.5	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.9	Studio 360.
0:28.0	It's good, Anderson.
0:30.8	We spend a lot of time on Studio 360 talking about movies,
0:34.9	which is why every year we can't help ourselves and devote a whole show
0:38.8	to filmmakers and actors up for Academy Awards. This is that show.
0:47.6	The Oscar ceremony still gets a huge television audience, 25 or 30 million in the U.S.,
0:53.5	but the numbers are not what they used to be.
0:56.5	The fraction of Americans watching lately is half what it was in 2000.
1:02.0	To try to keep the franchise from collapsing, the Motion Picture Academy has been anxiously, desperately fiddling.
1:10.2	Kind of like a presidential campaign in trouble.
1:13.5	Maybe more people would watch if it's shorter. So they just announced they were cutting the
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