Guillermo del Toro says a year when many Oscars nominees were working under life-risking pandemic conditions is not the time to change how the categories are honored during the live telecast
After acknowledging what made movie production for most of this year’s Oscar-nominees particularly unique, he went on to encourage other Hollywood figures to use their voice to speak out against the move.
“I must say, this — if any year was the year to think about it, this was not the year to not hear their names live at the Oscars. This is the year to say it and say it loud,” he said. Adding, “I have to advocate for all of us, as many of you that have a voice and that can say we should not do that. We should not do it here, we shouldn’t do it ever, but not this year. We are together in this.”
Just a day after del Toro’s comments, The Academy’s approach to honoring the eight category winners during the 2022 ceremony was clarified. Counter to some interpretations of the original announcement,