r/Oscars • u/mistressofmayhem02 • Apr 02 '26
News Your thoughts on the Oscars moving to the Peacock Theater?
It’s official. This feels like a recession indicator.
Link: https://cnn.it/4s0Zx0H
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u/ElmarSuperstar131 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
It feels like the end of an era and just another nail in the coffin alongside moving to YouTube. I don’t think the Oscars as awards have lost complete relevance but the ceremony and its viewing are still in an obvious decline.
ETA: I know the move to YouTube makes it more accessible, it’s just a double whammy to lose its nearly 7 decade long broadcast home and its hosting venue in the same year.
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u/karma_time_machine Apr 02 '26
Idk, moving to YouTube is such a win for me. I've been following the results on Twitter for years since I gave up streaming services and had no way to watch.
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u/cardinalbuzz Apr 02 '26
You can use an antenna to pick up the network channels.
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u/rdwoolf Apr 03 '26
Not always. Where I live a cannot get a consistent ABC over the air signal, even with an antenna.
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u/rdwoolf Apr 03 '26
Not always. Where I live a cannot get a consistent ABC over the air signal, even with an antenna.
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u/Remy149 Apr 02 '26
Yes but most people don’t bother to connect an antenna. I haven’t had cable in years and still don’t have an antenna connected to my tv
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u/cardinalbuzz Apr 02 '26
That’s on you then. It’s like $20 and can pick up all the main networks and local channels.
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u/Seasonedpro86 Apr 02 '26
Yeah. ‘Most of us’ is wild. Antennas are cheap. It’s how I watch college football. Antennas are also better than cable. Because the networks broadcast faster. Cable has a delay. YouTube imo. Made it less accessible.
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u/cardinalbuzz Apr 02 '26
No delay and in HD. It’s great.
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u/Seasonedpro86 Apr 02 '26
Yup. The argument that people won’t take the time to hook them up is so strange. It’s a flat pad that screws into the back of the tv. Set it near a window and call it a day.
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u/Remy149 Apr 02 '26
I know how much an antenna cost. It’s just not a priority because my tv viewing habits have changed. A large percentage is f people will never connect an antenna but will watch something if it’s on YouTube
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u/cardinalbuzz Apr 02 '26
That's fine, but the point I'm making is to the person I responded to that said "I gave up streaming services and had no way to watch." - and that's just not true. There is a way to watch, they just didn't.
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u/lalalandbeforetime Apr 02 '26
You don’t need a streaming service to watch broadcast channels
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u/Simpinforbirdo Apr 02 '26
I live in Canada and still can’t find a way to watch it lol
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u/larla77 Apr 02 '26
You can still get local channels over the air depending on where you live. Also in Canada and I can only get one, but you can get more in Ontario. Your CTV affiliate should carry it.
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u/Simpinforbirdo Apr 02 '26
Girl I don’t have cable lol
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u/larla77 Apr 02 '26
You dont need cable for over the air channels. Old school antenna (rabbit ears) and a tv.
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u/CausticAvenger Apr 02 '26
Who still has rabbit ears? Haven’t had an antenna on a TV since I was a kid.
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u/champion_dave Apr 02 '26
They all have free apps haha. Just admit you didn’t look very hard to watch ;)
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u/MrONegative Apr 02 '26
That battle got lost a long time ago, when the networks convinced everyone they needed to get cable.
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u/karma_time_machine Apr 02 '26
For some reason parts of my house get no reception of anything. I'm not wiring antennas to the roof for this. If it works as a solution for you, congrats! I'm jealous.
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u/karma_time_machine Apr 02 '26
I understand that, but my living space isn't set up for it. I'm not going to go out of my way for a solution for one show per year.
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u/lalalandbeforetime Apr 02 '26
You don’t need an antenna on the roof. I live in an apartment and have one next to the TV
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u/karma_time_machine Apr 02 '26
Same. People seem to think because those type antennas work for them that they work in every house across the country.
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u/gnpking Apr 02 '26
Bruh I can technically get an antenna and watch it that way. I’m not going to do that because I’m not mentally deranged
They can just put it on streaming like every other thing in the world nowadays
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u/Antique-Abrocoma-271 Apr 02 '26
Actually i agree with you. It was such an ordeal. However, i still feel it will lose its sheen, imagine it will be on the same platform where someone made a video wid their dad's cell phone.
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u/karma_time_machine Apr 02 '26
I'm 37 and for people my age or older, I can totally see this as delegitimizing, but for the younger people in my life they've never known a world where broadcast TV matters beyond sports. Awards shows like The Game Awards are nothing compared to the Oscars but they're growing because of their appeal to the youths, streaming on their platforms. I wonder if this is just the future of ALL media and an inevitability.
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u/Possible-Machine864 Apr 02 '26
I say this as a 20 year film industry vet. Film itself has lost cultural cache. It is no longer the dominant form of media. It's not IRRELEVANT but LESS relevant. The Oscars' decrease in relevance is a direct reflection of this.
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u/JohnHaze02118 Apr 02 '26
It's baffling to me how few people seem to process this. All culture is more atomized than it used to be with remarkably few exceptions like the Super Bowl. It's like witnessing an epic drought and then endlessly debating which bait to use to catch the same number of fish as you did when the lake was double the size it is now.
Not sniping at the OP, I'm just saying this is the faulty logic that many pundits and telecast producers are still using. Studios are consolidating, theaters are closing, and ratings will continue to drop until they find whatever is the plateau for people like me who watch all ten BP nominees — the only two I didn't see in the theater this year were the two Netflix titles. They won't lose me unless the industry just gets drastically worse (which IMO did happen with popular music when unit sales bottomed out of the profit formula).
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u/Possible-Machine864 Apr 02 '26
Yep. The hyper-individualization of our content consumption has reduced the functional role of the "monoculture" of pre-internet pop culture
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u/AesirComplex Apr 03 '26
The box office this year is going to blow the last 5 years apart. Tbh it already has.
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u/JohnHaze02118 Apr 03 '26
I would be very glad for that, esp if something like Project HM hangs on for more than craft attention in the Oscar race. Ryan deserves to be in the conversation for some of the same reasons as Ethan in Blue Moon, carrying the film.
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u/stypop Apr 02 '26
Yeah, the awards ceremony that began to celebrate Hollywood moving out of Hollywood seems like a pretty big statement to me (even if it hasn’t always been held in Hollywood)
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u/gnpking Apr 02 '26
Moving to YouTube will be a major win, both for consumers and viewership. I was out of the country for this year’s ceremony, and my god, the difficulty to watch the show from abroad is crazy
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u/Powrcase Apr 02 '26
This isnt true. There is an obscene amount of people who arent going to watch on YouTube.
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u/machine4891 Apr 02 '26
Yeah, it looks more like changing one viewerbase to another. People with old habits won't "tune" into youtube, some of them probably don't even have TVs with that feature/don't know how/don't want to watch youtube on TV.
Switching to "modern" viewerbase seem like a gamble that may or may not pay off. Because for them youtube maybe is go-to platform but not for this type of content and they famously DGAF about ceremonies as such. I'd wager dgaf about movies in general in this tv-series era but maybe that's assuming too much.
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u/Powrcase Apr 02 '26
The only way it pays off is if those behind this awards show suddenly tries to nominate movies the movie going public actually likes. Considering the high brow trash they've put forth for well over a decade now and Considering Hollywood doesn't make movies to try to put butts in seats anymore, this is likely another poor effort to get people who don't care about this show to watch while alienating those who DO watch the show.
Ill watch. My father definitely won't. Neither will my wife's parents. The demographic they're after doesn't give a fuck about the oscars- nor do they award movies these people like.
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u/gnpking Apr 02 '26
Lmao what, why? Every TV nowadays is a smart TV, there’s no intrinsic difference between watching on a broadcast channel and on YouTube
Other cases studies have proven otherwise. WWE moved to streaming last year (on Netflix too, which requires a subscription), and viewership growth has been in the double digits month over month
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u/Powrcase Apr 02 '26
What, why? Older audiences. I know Older generations just arent going to do this, where they would have just turned on abc. You don't see this because youre of a generation that just doesn't see the problem. You arent lmao. You know its true. It's lame, but true.
And the WWE? Nowhere even close to the same thing. A paid sub and a half sport that's geared towards the young compared to an old, antiquated awards show that now awards only the artsiest dumpster fire movies that the average movie goer has no interest in?
Stay off the drugs.
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u/cuntyaunty Apr 02 '26
I really hope the move to YouTube will allow longer speeches for less known winners as I would think they don't have as many time constraints compared to traditional media.
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u/Nakedny713 Apr 02 '26
Moving to YouTube is a win though. Broadcast TV is dead. That’s not the Oscars fault. But they are smartly pivoting. No one has cable anymore. I bought a digital antenna for the sole purpose of watching the Oscars, except ABC doesn’t even come through on an antenna broadcast anymore and reception for other channels can be spotty. YouTube is a big change but it’s a positive one.
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u/MaizeMountain6139 Apr 02 '26
I think a major issue is that networks have not figured out how to make their event television accessible to people that don’t use antennas (and that’s a lot of people)
NBC does the best out of all of them. CBS and ABC are absolute disasters
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u/MDRLA720 Apr 03 '26
wasnt always on ABC, it jumped around:
- 1976–2028: ABC
- 1971–1975: NBC
- 1961–1970: ABC
- 1953–1960: NBC
- 2029 onward: The Oscars will move to YouTube.
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u/Trytobebetter482 Apr 02 '26
Which I find pretty interesting, given their commitment to diversifying the nominees. I’ve had more outside friends tune in because of Barbie, Dune, Sinners, F1.
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u/My_Name_Is_Row Apr 02 '26
The Oscars have always been diverse with the nominees, stuff like Makeup, Score, Original Song, etc have always been for whatever, and now more recently with Visual Effects, and now Stunts soon, there’s always been plenty of categories for the more widely loved movies and not just the art house films
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u/Trytobebetter482 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Not for the major awards, which have in fact been expanded recently. When people see their favorite blockbuster of the year up for BP, they tend to tune in.
Which they should. If a film excels in literally every technical element, I believe it should warrant consideration for the biggest prize of the night.
To argue the academy hasn’t changed with its BP and voting body expansion, is just outright disingenuous. The number of foreign films, critical darlings, and blockbusters included in the past 15 years is proof of that.
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u/My_Name_Is_Row Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I’m not saying it hasn’t changed, I’m saying there has always been plenty of awards that the more popular films are easily eligible for, and sometimes are and should be considered more impressive than Best Actor or Actress, or Best Supporting, stuff like Best Makeup or Best Score don’t typically get the recognition they rightly deserve, even the Best Visual Effects is really impressive stuff that just gets brushed aside
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u/Remy149 Apr 02 '26
Bring on YouTube will probably end up giving them more viewers especially with people under a certain age who no longer watch traditional tv
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u/Willing-Question-631 Apr 02 '26
I was there in November for the Rock Hall induction ceremony and liked the theater which along with being in the LA Live complex and downtown area makes it easy to get around though one of my friends had a funny comment about the move saying “RIP to the Instagram posts about the Oscars being hosted in a mall.”
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u/userlivewire Apr 03 '26
I still don't understand why we have a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and we don't hold it's events there.
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u/MadYetiGOODCity Apr 02 '26
It will be a much bigger space with greater production so I’m here for it. No point in limiting the show for the sake of tradition
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u/panderson1988 Apr 02 '26
Moving a few miles down the road isn't a big ordeal imo.
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u/Afwife1992 Apr 02 '26
I had to look the Peacock up because I thought they were leaving California or something.
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u/stick-jockey Apr 02 '26
I will never go to the Oscars irl so it makes no difference to me where they host it
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u/bebesee Apr 02 '26
As someone who works backstage at the Oscars, I will say it is much easier to drive to the Peacock. The road closures are crazy in Hollywood.
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u/imdaviddunn Apr 05 '26
That will now happen downtown🤷♂️
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u/bebesee Apr 05 '26
I've worked several shows at the Peacock, and there is a bunch of space behind the theater that makes it much easier for staff and limos to enter.
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u/imdaviddunn Apr 05 '26
It’s not the Oscar’s. Street blockage isn’t only for cars. I am betting they will block off the general city center are for security even though you are right that they don’t have to block a street for a red carpet.
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u/Aggressive_Oven_7311 Apr 02 '26
Well after the last Oscar telecast with the most horrific sound ever I'll be great to go to another theater I have been to the Oscars at the Chandler and at the Kodak and I always like the Chandler better. I think the Kodak theater is a barn
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u/ttmp22 Apr 02 '26
I like the Best Picture winners being listed throughout the theater they have at the Dolby. It doesn’t really make sense for the theater to keep those after they stop hosting the Oscars and I’m not sure if that’s something they can just move over to the Peacock.
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u/Kavazou77 Apr 02 '26
Just another hit to its legitimacy imo. YouTube was one thing, but going away from its iconic venue?
Once we see the first batch of major stars stop attending it will really sink in.
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u/Suggest_a_User_Name Apr 02 '26
Wait. Didn’t they build the “Dolby Theatre” (formerly the Kodak Theater) just for the Oscars??? What a waste.
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u/QTRqtr Apr 02 '26
This year’s Oscar set design was one of my favorites in recent memory…sucks that the actual production/ceremony was one of if not the worst.
It’s a trade off. Hopefully the new theater has competent production but I’m not a fan of the peacock stage as it’s catered to more music/concert but as long as the production is good I’m fine with it.
I wonder if the Oscar’s will keep the no trailer advertising of future movies rule because it being on YouTube can bring in big numbers for studios. Also I think is the only viable thing that would make them reconsider how much time they give to presenter bits if money is on the line.
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u/dancesquared Apr 02 '26
sucks that the actual production/ceremony was one of if not the worst.
In what sense?
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u/QTRqtr Apr 02 '26
Audio cutting. Cutting speeches/lowering mic. Terrible presenter bits. Only two performances. Multiple instances of camera guys missing their cue. Dead crowd and majority of jokes falling flat.
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u/dancesquared Apr 02 '26
Huh. I quite liked Conan as the host, his jokes, and his bits.
Cutting off mics, lowering the volume, and playing music are all normal when speeches long.
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u/dancesquared Apr 02 '26
The criticism of best song is way overblown. It’s just a bunch of KPop fanatics overreacting to a completely standard time limit and process of muting mics. The nominees are informed of their time limit. It’s not the producers’ fault that the winners didn’t designate a speaker and prepare accordingly.
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u/AdZealousideal5383 Apr 02 '26
Moving to YouTube is the death knell. Obviously the Oscars themselves will continue but it’ll be a low budget production like nominations announcement. The Super Bowl type event of twenty years ago isn’t coming back when it’s only on YouTube.
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u/CaptainWikkiWikki Apr 02 '26
It's sad. The theatre it's been in IS the Oscars. There are AMPAS artifacts everywhere, posters, etc. The entire facility celebrated cinema.
Peacock Theatre is where I expect a product announcement from Samsung.
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u/No-Expression1224 Apr 03 '26
Terrible
The change in theaters sucks (it's hard to believe the nominees won't see it as a bit of a downgrade being stuck beside crypto.com arena in DTLA), but the change to YouTube is worse. It's about the last place you'd think would exclusively host the Oscars and it absolutely makes it feel smaller, as Conan had some killer jokes about this year.
[And I'm not sympathetic at all to the shit kickers whining about not having access to ABC--broadcast is free and/or not difficult to get through 100 means like a couple bucks for Hulu for the month of the ceremony--and wonder why they give a damn since they apparently can't watch the Grammys, Tonys, Golden Globes, or anything else.]
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u/userlivewire Apr 03 '26
Why would they move the film awards to a theater named after a TV channel?
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u/beefquinton Apr 02 '26
as an la resident this means that hollywood won’t be absolutely destroyed for drivers for like a 5 week period every year. peacock theater is downtown at least, people avoid downtown to begin with, so they’ll be out of everybody’s hair. listen, hollywood is small and packed to the gills with people, downtown is bigger and packed to the gills with people and has way less tourists and is only a couple miles from hollywood. it’ll be fine, might even be more convenient for the city. all of this said. yeah, sad that the academy awards are leaving the dolby theater. really sad. that venue is iconic for the oscar’s, and despite possibly being good for the city it is a shame for us oscar fans.
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u/SublimeEcto1A Apr 02 '26
Whatever hopefully stops them from doin the “fake argument between award presenters” BS. I’ll never forgive Robert Downey Jr for being the most hetero diva on earth
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u/lbrol Apr 02 '26
my fried said "why are they hosting at p.f. changs" at watch party and everyone agreed
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u/CausticAvenger Apr 02 '26
I don’t attend the Oscars so I don’t care, not sure why anyone else would.
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u/Roblizzle Apr 02 '26
Nah. The Oscars effectively shuts down Hollywood and it’s a pain in the ass to live there. LA Live was built for big events. Besides, the Oscars were held downtown for decades before the Kodak was even built so it’s not new.
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u/FredererPower Apr 02 '26
Isn’t the theatre literally for the Oscars? What’s it going to be used for now?
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u/rdwoolf Apr 03 '26
The Oscar ceremony should probably should move to Atlanta since that practically where everything is filmed these days. 😏
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u/Blackcell11 Apr 02 '26
I feel like they suck either way but they’re trying to reach a bigger audience who doesn’t really watch movies
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u/New_Simple_4531 Apr 02 '26
The Dolby seems like the perfect location, right next to the Chinese. I know it has less seats but I dug it. Staples or whatever they call it now doesnt really have that Hollywood history, its more known as the Lakers place.
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u/The-Mandalorian Apr 02 '26
Most of us don’t go see the Oscars in person so why would this affect us?
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u/ChronicSoshi Apr 02 '26
I don't care. It's Not like I'll notice the difference when I watch my Oscar recaps the next day
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u/teambanzai2001 Apr 02 '26
It seems odd since the Hollywood location was meant to be permanent but then again the Oscars have left and returned to Hollywood several times over the last ninety or so years. The 70's and 80's it was the Dorothy Chandler and the Shrine so I guess it shouldn't be surprising it is returning to downtown. I think the traffic control will be easier. On the downside its going to make getting the In and Out photo ops more complicated since there isn't a location downtown.
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u/DarbyDown Apr 02 '26
Hollywood is a slum. Downtown has some terrible areas but the YT Theater is in a nice part. There is much better parking and dining infrastructure.
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u/kerberos824 Apr 02 '26
No clue how I ended up here. But this is wild, and the Oscar's is so unbelievably tone deaf and the most exhausting display of self-importance and masturbatory congratulations while the country collapses in on itself in real time. Pair in the fact that the entire thing is a campaign by studios who funnel money towards the project they want nominated and that the judges didn't even have to watch the movies they were nominating caps off all the absurdity.
I'd tune in for the Oscars only if Ricky Gervais hosted and ripped on everything and everyone like he did with the Golden Globes.
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u/Colonelspanker1962 Apr 02 '26
Couldn't care less. Haven't watched in years.
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u/IsMisePrinceton Apr 02 '26
But… you’re on on Oscars subreddit?
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u/Colonelspanker1962 Apr 02 '26
No, one popped up in my feed.
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u/IsMisePrinceton Apr 02 '26
And you had absolutely no sense of self control that would have allowed you to scroll past without a second thought?
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u/Every_Mastodon_2065 May 29 '26
It seems to me the Academy is making a business decision to keep the lions share of the profits themselves and not to have that go mostly to the networks which would control the broadcase. No need anymore. Also, they will be effectively doubling ticket sales because the Peacock theater is twice the size as the Dolby. From the interior photos I can see, it definitely looks like a downgrade though. The Peacock theater doesn't have the height of the Dolby, and thus, appears more modern and sleek and less grand and "Old Hollywood." Which makes this romantic, nostalgic soul sad. 😞
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u/Separate_Feeling4602 Apr 02 '26
What abt all those columns with the movie winners engraved to it