Let's celebrate the mistakes the Oscars didn't make
Just one last word about the 2023 Academy Awards, which wrapped Sunday in a manner largely free of catastrophic embarrassment: Here's an unsexy-but-crucial rundown of the mistakes that were avoided.
If you've ever worked on an annual project of any kind – maybe it's an event, maybe it's a report, maybe it's the Academy Awards – you've probably been part of a debriefing process, wherein various stakeholders gather to discuss what went right, what went wrong and what went really wrong. Maybe, for example, your best actress winner gave a lovely speech, but your best actor winner got up on stage and slapped a famous across the face. It happens.
