Conflict over pre-taped segments
With viewing numbers falling off a cliff in recent years, eight categories will now be pre-recorded.
This week Matthew Loeb, president of film crew union the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, called out the bosses over its “detrimental” plan to pre-tape, saying it wasn’t fair on the little-known members nominated.
He added: “Behind-the-scenes workers get little recognition as is.”
On Wednesday Peter Kurland, a four-time Oscar-nominated sound mixer who sits on the Cinema Audio Society’s board, resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over plans to axe live gongs for categories including Best Sound.
The resignation comes only three weeks after Tom Fleischman, an Oscar-winning re-recording mixer, quit.
