In the run-up to the Oscar ceremony, the planned streamlining of the Gala for outrage. Oscar-nominated film-makers have criticised the end, including the "Roma"of the Director Alfonso Cuarón and the US cinematographer Caleb Deschanel ("the work without the author"), plans of the film Academy, and the trophies in four categories of advertising, for the first time during breaks in the Show at 24. February. With the waiver of the Gala is to be kept shorter.
the Oscars in the categories camera, editing, Live Action, are Affected to a short film, as well as Make-up and hair styling, such as the Oscar Academy announced, according to "Variety" in a letter to members. The Handing over of the prizes in the four categories should be seen in the Internet, thanks to the speeches of the winners would be transferred in a shorter Form in the TV show, it said.
Not a movie is nominated without cutting and camera
Cuaron, whose Film "Roma" for ten Oscars (for camera) revolted in a Tweet: "In the history of cinema, there were masterpieces without sound, without color, without history, without actors and without music. Not a single Film has ever existed without a camera and without cut“.
Deschanel said in a voice loud "Variety" of a "depressing" choice of the Oscar Academy. Movies would start with the work of a camera man, said of the Americans. Deschanel is nominated for his work on the portrait of the Artists "work without the author" by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. "Camera and editing are the heart of our art," said Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro ("Shape of Water"). (dpa)