A Year After Envelope Pandemonium, A Ho-Hum Night Is Just What The Oscars Ordered
It only stands to reason that the most surprising Oscars might be followed by the least surprising Oscars.
Last year's awards closed with , in which Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty announced the wrong best picture winner () and then the embarrassed producers took it back and gave it to the film that actually won (). So it was hard not to wonder on Sunday night what the Oscars would look like a year later — especially given that these were the awards for the year in which a very unconventional president took office. A year in which the Academy expelled Harvey Weinstein, one of its most powerful mega-producers. A year in which one of the best supporting actor nominees (Christopher Plummer in ) stepped in to take over and reshoot scenes after the original actor (Kevin Spacey)
