{"id":2125,"date":"2013-02-21T01:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T06:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2013-02-21T01:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T06:46:15","slug":"best-picture-will-not-conclude-the-oscars-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/21\/best-picture-will-not-conclude-the-oscars-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Picture Will Not Conclude the Oscars This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/vulture\/2012\/10\/01\/01-seth-macfarlane-academy-awards.o.jpg\/a_190x190.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>The Oscars are about a great many things \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the speeches, the getups, the awards that maintain a semblance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/02\/best-director-who-has-the-edge-without-affleck.html\">suspense<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/02\/best-actress-are-you-ready-for-a-surprise-win.html\">unpredictability<\/a> even after the interminable parade of prior awards shows \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but the telecast does tend to build toward one big thing:\u00c2\u00a0 the award for Best Picture. No longer, sayeth Seth MacFarlane. Now the host\/<i>Family Guy<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0creator\u00c2\u00a0and Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<i>Wicked<\/i>,\u00c2\u00a0<i>The West Wing<\/i>,\u00c2\u00a0<i>Pushing Daisies<\/i>) will have a &#8220;special show-closing musical performance&#8221; to keep you glued to the 85th Academy Awards. Producers\u00c2\u00a0Craig Zadan and Neil Meron <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/thevote\/2013\/02\/oscarcast-wont-end-with-best-picture-announcement.html\">call it<\/a> &#8220;a &#8216;can&#8217;t miss&#8217; moment&#8221; in a statement. Sorry,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/02\/best-picture-how-argo-could-lose.html\"><i>Argo<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0or\u00c2\u00a0<i>Lincoln<\/i><\/a>. You just aren&#8217;t musical numbers by Seth MacFarlane and Kristin Chenoweth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/zach%20dionne\">Zach Dionne<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/oscars\" title=\"Read all posts tagged oscars\">oscars<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/oscars-2013\" title=\"Read all posts tagged oscars 2013\">oscars 2013<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/movies\" title=\"Read all posts tagged movies\">movies<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/seth-macfarlane\" title=\"Read all posts tagged seth macfarlane\">seth macfarlane<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/kristin-chenoweth\" title=\"Read all posts tagged kristin chenoweth\">kristin chenoweth<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Vulture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/02\/best-picture-will-not-conclude-oscars.html\">http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/02\/best-picture-will-not-conclude-oscars.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscars are about a great many things \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the speeches, the getups, the awards that maintain a semblance of suspense and unpredictability even after the interminable parade of prior awards shows \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but the telecast does tend to build toward one big thing:\u00c2\u00a0 the award for Best Picture. No longer, sayeth Seth MacFarlane. Now &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/21\/best-picture-will-not-conclude-the-oscars-this-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Picture Will Not Conclude the Oscars This Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[6,82,81],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-ifttt","tag-vulture","tag-zach-dionne"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-yh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}