Does anyone know if the producers for the Oscars know the results before everyone else?
My contention is that they have to. I can't even imagine producing a live show, which I have before, without knowing for sure what's coming up next and what button to push to make it happen.
But my sister claims otherwise, and says that the producers are as much in the dark as everyone else, sans the Academy of course.
Does anyone know the truth?!!!!
I believe they don't know but have enough cameras to keep one on every nominee. There is enough time between reading the name and cutting to the winner.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
I have worked the Oscar show for the past 6 years. The only people who know the winners are the two reps from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even the Academy doesn't know.
rj is correct - there are enough cameras (over 40) used during the production and a very experienced crew and director. Since you have produced live shows you know all this - but just in case there is someone reading who doesn't: All the audience cameras are pointed at different sections of the house and the director has a monitor on his console for each camera. The very second the winner is announced he calls out the camera number he wants to go live and the TD (Technical Director) pushes the button - it takes fractions of a second.
You're right lognp, it's hard to imagine how difficult a live show like that is to produce. It's well rehearsed (8 days with stand-ins - 2 with actual presenters) but know one really knows what going to happen or when a presenter or winner will do something unexpected.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
Imagine how hard it would be to track a hockey game. Puck flying very fast from player to player, somehow the folks running the cameras are able to keep up without missing a beat. Nobody guessing that the plays are pre-arranged, you just accept.
Oscar has big money involved and a lot more people watching so they stack the deck with practice and extra cameras but its really a matter of having a quick witted decisive person in command.
So Certified, any info on that old rumor about Marisa Tomei's oscar? I assume the rumor is bogus but you never know.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
I didn't even think about sports. Imagine directing any live sporting event - no way to know for sure what's going happen next.
Regarding Tomei: I din't start working the Oscars until they moved to the Kodak Theater, but I know there is no way a mistake could have stuck. Of course a mistake can be made but something like that would have been corrected immediately.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)
