THB Sidebar: The 10 Questions The Academy Needs To Be Asking About Its Show & Its Future

If I am your ideal Oscar viewer, who is not currently likely to watch the show or see all the movies, how can The Academy and the Oscar participants best inspire me to do either or both?

What is the purpose of Awards Shows… and more specifically, The Oscars?

If you were building an film/television award show from scratch in 2023, what would you build?

If you were (or are) a marketer and you were handed a package of 10 quality films with a major award about to be given to one of them, how would you sell the overall package to maximize gross revenue?

Is the highest value found in a single show dominating or is the idea of building to a crescendo the most valuable way of presenting awards?

Is there are reason to have the Oscar event in March, more than 2 months after the opening of all of the nominees?

Is Oscar a theatrical award or a streaming award or both and does this matter?

By putting so much of the onus - and financial benefit - on the media to market the Oscar movies, is The Acade…