Do you remember who the winners of the 2022 Oscar Awards were? It is possible that to arrive at a satisfactory answer you need to take a few seconds and think calmly, but this has a reason: the resounding slap that Will Smith gave Chris Rock in the middle of the ceremony it has remained engraved in the collective imagination making diffuse what happened during the rest of the event.
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I may be overreacting, but with the 2023 Oscars just around the corner, the Hollywood Academy is tense enough to having organized a kind of anti-crisis cabinet so that nothing gets out of the script, and that includes guests wanting to fight in the middle of the broadcast. This is, at least, what its director Bill Kramer has conveyed during an interview with Time magazine.
In the conversation, Kramer, of course, was asked about the unpredictability of an event broadcast strictly live, letting it fall that They already have teams prepared for different potential scenarios.
“Because of what happened last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these anti-crisis plans—the communications equipment and infrastructure—allow us to say which group we should assemble quickly. [en caso de imprevisto]. This is the spokesperson. This would be the statement. And, obviously, depending on the details of the crisis, and hopefully nothing happens and we never have to use them, we already have pre-established infrastructures that we can modify.”
In addition, it has emphasized the need for a fast reaction capacity before any scenario.
“You know, that happened on a Tuesday and six days later we were able to present our formal statement from the meeting that shaped our plan. You never know exactly what is going to happen, but you have to have teams, infrastructure and processes ready to join forces and solve things quickly. But also making sure you have the right members and leaders to have a voice in this conversation. That’s the key.”
The 95th Academy Awards Ceremony will be held at dawn from March 12 to 13 under the baton of Jimmy Kimmel. Let’s hope you don’t have to deal with slaps or outbursts that once again cloud what is truly important.