Vanity Fair: The Academy Awards is Hollywood’s biggest night on its biggest stage—and this year, that stage is an especially zen space.
Each year, production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley reimagine the stage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Some years it’s grandiose and bold; other years it harkens back to the golden era of Hollywood. But it’s never been as green as it is this year.
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This design is STUNNING! It is truly amazing! So refreshing, elegant, zen, and clean. I love how they transformed the space! I have never seen an awards show that looks anything like this! I feel like most that I have seen in the past are just a copy and paste job, but this feels new and fresh! I am honestly getting Apple store vibes, with all the greenery that they try to integrate in unconventional ways. Everything about this design feels so cohesive, and I know that it took ages to conceive and produce! All of the moving video panels are such a cool way to partition off and manipulate the stage. I have seen something similar in the Eurovision Song Contest, but those could only track up and downstage and rotate. Unlike the Super Bowl halftime show, this really feels like a design that is stunning in person and on camera!
As someone who admittedly isn’t a big fan of major award shows (or even the concept in general with how it is popularly executed) like the Oscars, I must admit that I was truly wowed by the design for the stage this year. The fact that everything is handcrafted and so meticulously detailed to have an “organic” rather than “luxury” feel is inspiring, despite its contradiction in representing the Oscars in and of itself. The problem with major award shows onstage like this is the culture surrounding it often being exclusionary, privileged and elitist. It’s seen as a pinnacle of achievement despite the many ways it’s “rigged”, however this sentiment is also commonly known by both the public and Oscars themselves and there have been major motions by the committee and board to combat this. Nevertheless, the design is still beautiful and deserved to represent the Oscars stage this year, even if the notion of “deserving” is debatable when it comes to the Oscars.
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