Alfonso Cuarón is as happy as anyone that the Academy decided to change course and air all 24 categories live during the Oscars this weekend, calling the decision “inevitable” in a Variety interview at last night’s Writers Guild Awards in New York.
Now that that’s out of the way, the “Roma” filmmaker wants AMPAS to go even further.“Let’s stop calling them technical categories!” he said.
“By calling them ‘technical’ and ‘below-the-line,’ there’s already kind of an invisible wall that creates a very false perception.
They’re all artists.” In addition to writing and directing his latest film, Cuarón also shot it — and received an Oscar nomination for his black-and-white cinematography, which was one of the awards scheduled to be given out during a commercial break.He was one of many members of the film community to criticize that move:In the history of Cinema, masterpieces have existed without sound,
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