the Oscars was once the most anticipated event of the year and for good reason Ellen just being Ellen and equal rights for women in the United States of America a superstar selfie gone wild oh it's wonderful to work in a town with so many creative talented gorgeous sexy women and I have that enviable job of getting close to one of them people from around the world tune in to see their favorite movie stars musicians and celebrities all in the same spot just as excited as you to see their favorite movies go head to-head for the
Golden man I'm in shock and I'm so in love with my brother right now I cry a lot but in recent years trashing the Oscars has become as much of a tradition as the show itself total viewership was down 16% from last year's Affair ratings dipping to an all-time loan estimated 23.6 M the second year in a row the Oscars went hoseless last night things are getting unstable and it seems like a lot of people agree that each change is just making things worse tonight we're going to have a gay night G and worse I
know what am I doing here you know you don't have to take this job I'm your guy this year's Oscar ceremony was filled with historic firsts with diversity taking Center Stage but the Academy Awards was not spared from dwindling ratings after its viewership plunged a new record low they say they're planning on turning things around this year but between Studios playing dirtier winners getting more predictable and celebrities no longer caring it makes me angry that people care it's easy to see why people are skeptical it really felt like oh this is a really clear indication
that uh we're not the cool Club anymore but lucky for them this is far from their first time facing imminent destruction it's 1929 Hollywood is like the wild west unorganized and scary ERS want more money Studios want to pay less of it and commercialism is overshadowing artistry LS B mayor the head of MGM knows the movie industry is going to take over the world but also realizes that first they need to clean things up a little bit so after getting enough support he creates the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the academy is successful
in its mission for the most part and not long after they hold their first annual banquet which Lewis decides to turn into an award show why well he says quote I found the best way to handle filmmakers was to medals all over them if I got them cups and awards they' you know themselves to produce what I wanted that's why the Academy Award was created but for everyone else it serves as a good excuse to get people together celebrate good movies and honor those who went above and beyond they give out 12 Awards and the
ceremony only lasts 15 minutes nevertheless it serves as a picturesque humble beginning fast forward it's the 1950s Hollywood is now synonymous with mainstream culture not just in America but all over the world so it's a big deal when in 1953 The Academy finally gives the public a way to partake in their biggest night via television broadcast technology this once intimate 15minute long ceremony now becomes a featurelength spectacle with 30 million plus people now watching judging and critiquing and while this does result in some genuinely special moments giving proper recognition to people who were once just
names on a screen it also gives way to movie stars becoming public figures these people that were once just known for being fictional characters are now real people with with real thoughts and opinions 15 years now I know how the Republicans felt when they got there and the Academy Awards becomes a platform to set them free good evening Hollywood phonies and I think this was in part due to our director Fred Zinman that in the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of Zionist hams we
live in a time where we have fictitious election results elects the fictitious president shame on you and anytime you've got the P from the Dixie Chicks against you it's a recipe for a disaster but compared to what's boiling under the surface these Antics don't even leave a scratch in the 1990s one name penetrates all of Hollywood dealmakers the other guy that we really need to thank though is Harvey Weinstein and I just want to congratulate the mbuka Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein thank you Harvey Weinstein Harvey Weinstein who believed in us and made this movie
better than I do sometimes I call him Jennifer it's a pet name but he quickly makes himself Infamous as someone not willing to respect boundaries someone who will do anything it takes to get his way thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today he turns the Oscars into a fierce Battleground where you only play fair if you want to lose he hired his really spies to follow you and other reporters around that's insane sure everyone wants to win an oscar but up to this point no one was playing
quite as dirty as Harvey Weinstein and in 1999 this all culminates in a moment that changes the Oscars forever every year the viewership in public reception is largely based on the nominees for Best Picture and this year everyone's favorite Contender is Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan it's a culture changing Global phenomena with box office numbers to match many of those most affected by the scenes of D-Day are men who were actually on the scene the most realistic war movie I ever saw people were being blown apart and would you look at that a best picture
nomination they made it to the championship let's be honest these other guys don't even stand a chance especially what is Shakespeare in Love it's a romantic comedy meet young will Shakespeare and the Oscar goes to Shakespeare and love everyone's caught by surprise when the award goes to John Madden's Shakespeare in Love he's out of lock until she came into his world she a romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love and fingers immediately point to its producer he tricked everybody I don't know we made this movie this was a movie in the months leading up to the awards
Harvey did everything in his power to sway the vote blackmail bribing spreading bad narratives about other movies even throwing lavish parties and inviting all the academy members at one point people were even urging Steven Spielberg to use some of the same tactics but he did want to stoop to Harvey's level I'll do promotions but I'm not going to try to charm people and send them things so they vote for my movie one of Harvey's colleagues describes his method of campaigning as hand to-hand combat in the form of screenings parties and non-stop publicity I don't remember
ever feeling pressure like that from other Studios he calls the clients directly and guilts them he really is a beast and it turns out just like the one in the Disney movie he has a lot to hide a FL read um dat is so hot it is hot right eventually all of it comes to light but that doesn't matter the damage is already done Harvey's victory in 1999 is proof that with the right mix of strategy money and manipulation you can win an Oscar now everyone has the secret formula and it doesn't take long for
this to have a noticeable effect as the New Millennium arrives the ceremony is less about celebrating movies and more about getting awards for the sake of it in fact there's so many awards that the length of the show becomes an issue 3 hours tell why and right around award season you start to see theaters flood with what people are calling Oscar bait movies Studios usually pick these scripts for their Oscar winning qualities I'll bet you've seen more than a few movies like this Oscar bait checks off all the boxes racial tension can I help you
with your groceries haven't you done enough Whitey we all get there together we don't get there at all latent homosexuality thanks for shopping with us us are Chang if you like films where character is forced to overcome a rare disease then this my friends is your film I have balloon foot what if it pops I die while everybody else was aging I was getting younger all along why is it l he going on with me a lot of people claim this is why the Oscars start to ruin movies as a whole not because these types
of movies are bad in any way but because they pressure Movie Makers into worrying about checking off boxes rather than just making a good movie with the exception of the acting categories even then to an extent the Oscars are 100% becoming more critically friendly than audience friendly but trust isn't the only thing the academy is losing in the year 200000 46 million people tune into the show but after that viewership starts to steadily decline in response they try expanding best picture category from five nominees to 10 nominees maybe if people think their favorite movie Stand
a Fighting Chance they'll be more likely to watch watch it turns out that's not the case if anything The Dark Knight losing to another so-called Oscar Bait movie makes people angrier oh H they wronged you why so serious I just have to say Oscar people you best have this time maybe it's the host then for the next two shows they try having Two Hosts to quote mix tradition with freshness and neither of them go very well and right there in the front row is Merill Street wow we were just talking about you what a memorable
threesome it used to be you get naked you get nominated oh no not anymore what are they doing James you are nominated tonight the best actor kis are you nervous uh no no come on you must want to win a little bit I mean I don't know I mean what do you get if you win you get an Oscar yeah but do I like get money with it or uh here you are hosting the Oscars in 2011 with James Franco we sucked we however the following year they get Billy Crystal the same host from the
year 2000 when viewership was at its peak and things actually return to normal for a second it turns out this is just the eye of the storm the lack of racial diversity among tonight's Oscar nominees has provoked a lot of controversy online political activism hits Hollywood Hard and the academy is no exception for the second year in a row the hash Oscars so white made the rounds on social media the Oscars all that old slavery bull ass award show the hash Oscars so white takes a jab at the lack of diversity in the academy the
demonstrators are angry because but it's not just the internet saying this many celebrities show support for the movement it's unfortunate that the entire country and you know is a racist country but just generally speaking we're a racist we're a bunch of racists and even decide to not attend the ceremony spite Le then announced that he was going to skip the Oscars begging for acknowledgement diminishes dignity let's Let The Academy do them and let's do us differently what I get from Jada Smith is you're mad cuz your man wasn't nominated as far as the academy is
concerned their reasoning for not going doesn't matter but celebrity attendance does to address the problems they promised to up the amount of diversity in the academy in 2016 the people who run the Oscars committed to doubling the number of people of color and the number of Women Within its membership ranks for the 2016 Awards they promise a more diverse group of nominees and they get Chris Rock to host let's do this the public is is very divided about their response and the 2016 Oscar nominations are in but unfortunately they're just as white as they were
last year I don't see racism in our business I've never seen you know the Oscar membership is mainly old white men you know that's the fact it you know you can't you can't vote for an actor because he's black our industry is probably the least racist in the world do you believe that black actors should boycott the Oscars this year well you can't boycott what you're not invited to anyway now let me confess right up front here that I do intend to watch tonight for two reasons Chris Rock despite being attacked from all sides and
Chris Rock even threatening to drop out at one point they move forward with the show and the night finally arrives but Chris decides to address the elephant in the room head on this is the wildest craziest Oscars to ever host cuz we got all this this controversy no black nominees and people are like Chris you should boycott Chris you should quit you know H how come there only unemployed people to tell you to quit something huh so I thought about quitting but I realized they're not going to cancel the Oscar because I quit from here
on this new Academy just focuses on Fanning the Flames organizers said their goal was to disrupt the Academy Awards they certainly did that some accused them of giving into the mob it's all such a nonsensical joke the Oscars are always too white for these crybabies While others say they're not doing quite enough another apology from the academy this time it's over host Chris Rock's edgy joke that featured those three Asian kids who Rock joked were accountants this results in the internet getting angrier and members of The Academy becoming more and more detached from regular people
and the Oscars enters a dark era a lot of people watched the Oscars last night just not as many as last year Academy Awards plunged to a record low heading towards black the only way I could describe these next few years is complete chaos all black but where's Amy Amy is supposed to be Serena I'm right here wait what the hell I've come with a bit of bad news as you know everyone here has been tested for Co but we just have to do some quick emergency testing backstage don't worry they could have three hosts
all black for you people in Florida we're going to have a gay night gay the next day done at all big question tonight involving the Oscars who will host well possibly no one the Academy Awards is without a host since Kevin Hart stepped down after he was pressed to apologize over homophobic comments he made in the past but then like a star on the verge of death okay whether the Will Smith slap was good or bad for the Oscars is entirely up to you I was sickened by the standing ovation I felt like Hollywood is
just spineless that that slap was many years in the making right there Denzel and Bradley Cooper and Tyler Purry having to calm you down I mean damn come on bro Will Will Smith actually used to live behind my house but as far as the academy is concerned it's the best thing that could have happened did not know that this year was going to be the most exciting Oscars ever okay will and Chris we're going to solve that like family at the gold party is going to solve everything at the party he'll get rid of some
of the friction between you guys with uh 1,000 bottles of Diddy baby oil but right now we're moving on with love everybody makes a noise there's lots of speculation on what could have caused him to walk up there but one thing's for sure now all eyes are on the Oscars this is the moment the Academy's been waiting for and it just so happens to be perfect timing the next year is packed with popular nominees you have Avatar Elvis and Top Gun who doesn't like Top Gun oh my goodness it's working why are you like this
Tom and 2024 well some people were mad when barve lost best picture to Oppenheimer but nevertheless viewership is trending upward and Conan O'Brien just announced he's going to be hosting next year in true Conan fashion the host also filmed a hilarious video for the Academy's Instagram I'm an Oscar winner so subscribe and let me know do you think this is going to be the Revival the Academy's hoping for or is P Diddy going to have to save the show again [Music]
