The ceremony has ditched Graham Norton and adopted a curious new-look format. Is the red carpet a thing of the past?
As you are all no doubt aware, the real losers of the Covid era are the awards ceremonies. Once the height of impossible glamour, they have now been relegated to asking that nominees dress up to the nines, just to sit in their own living room and deliver sub-par reaction shots into a laptop webcam.
The
Grammys were small and uninteresting. The
Golden Globes were full of awkward technical hitches. The
Oscars had originally promised a “no Zoom” policy this year, but are quickly learning just how hard it is to force nominees to travel internationally during a pandemic, only to sit for hours and hope for an award they’re unlikely to win.