{"id":1361245,"date":"2022-03-06T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1361245"},"modified":"2022-03-06T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T20:23:48","slug":"veteran-sound-engineer-quits-academy-after-several-awards-cut-from-struggling-abc-oscars-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/veteran-sound-engineer-quits-academy-after-several-awards-cut-from-struggling-abc-oscars-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Sound Engineer Quits Academy After Several Awards Cut from Struggling ABC Oscars Broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fveteran-sound-engineer-quits-academy-after-several-awards-cut-from-struggling-abc-oscars-broadcast%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1361245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-140031493-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Five-time Oscar winning sound engineer Tom Fleischman has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the Academy\u2019s decision to pre-tape eight of the awards categories for inclusion in the broadcast instead of producing a fully live show this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fleischman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tom-fleischman-resigns-over-academy-oscars-telecast-plans-1235105095\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation<\/a> comes amid growing criticism of the annual awards show\u2019s move to pre-tape several awards presentations and remove them from the live broadcast, a decision that has brought condemnation as critics accuse the Academy of disrespecting the awards categories and the artists and craftsmen involved, the <i>Hollywood Reporter<\/i> revealed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The celebrated sound engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cy1DlUMV8XE\">won an Oscar<\/a> for his work in Martin Scorsese\u2019s <i>Hugo<\/i> and has a host of nominations for films including <i>Silence of the Lambs, Reds, The Aviator, <\/i>and<i> <i>Gangs of New York<\/i>.<\/i> He has also worked on films such as<i> <i>Goodfellas, The Irishman, The Departed, Do The Right Thing,<\/i> <\/i>and<i> <i>Raging Bull<\/i>.<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fleischman is just one of the many technicians and craftsmen who have risen up in anger over the Academy\u2019s broadcast plans. The Set Decorators Society of America, for instance, called the decision an \u201cextreme disappointment,\u201d and the Alliance for Women Film Composers stated the move \u201cdegrades the importance of the [original score] category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motion Picture Sound Editors president Mark A. Lanza also blasted the Academy, saying, \u201cThe Academy\u2019s mission is to honor the craft of filmmaking in all its parts. Eliminating certain categories from the live broadcast degrades that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/artisans\/news\/guillermo-del-toro-academy-reaction-1235193190\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke up<\/a> about the pre-taping plan, saying \u201cthis is not the year\u201d to demote certain categories from the live telecast, <i>Variety<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the Academy intends to go ahead with its plans to pre-tape the awards for documentary short, animated short, live action short, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, production design, and sound.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time Oscar winning sound engineer Tom Fleischman has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the Academy\u2019s decision to pre-tape eight of the awards categories for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}