Speeches

  • NewsTom Butler

    Oscars Introduce Drastic Changes To Keep Winners’ Speeches Short

    The organisers of the Academy Awards have revealed plans to drastically overhaul how Oscar winners make their speeches in order to keep them under 45 seconds long. “As you probably are aware, and we don’t want to embarrass anybody, but there is a long list of winners who have totally forgotten their directors, their husbands, their wives, their children and their animals,” said producer David Hill at the Academy nominees luncheon yesterday.