Review: Jimmy Kimmel delivers an uncontroversial, slap-free Oscars
LOS ANGELES — The Academy Awards, wherein golden statuettes are bestowed upon heroes of motion picture arts (and sciences), took place once again Sunday night, for the 95th time, with the traditional invocations, celebrations and ritual naming of the dead. And as has happened since before anyone nominated can remember, it was broadcast on television (on ABC). For whatever else the Oscars represent, it is, for all but a small handful of humans, a television show.
Because what we mostly, if not entirely, remember from last year’s ceremony is Will Smith and the Slap, the project this year — including a “crisis team” hired
