The Academy Awards are virtually right here. The largest evening in cinema is returning this 12 months, celebrating a few of the most impactful and highly effective moments the films needed to provide this 12 months, from blockbuster hits like “Depraved” and “Dune: Half Two” to important darlings like “Sing, Sing.”
Whereas the Academy has revealed the official nominations, giving us a glimpse as to who can be in attendance, they’ve but to announce the performers on the ceremony. Yearly, Oscar performances are typically from these nominated for Finest Unique Music, in addition to an In Memoriam efficiency. That being stated, one of many Finest Image nominees occurs to be one of many greatest musical motion pictures in ages, “Depraved.”
Will we see Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande “take to the Western sky” in an epic efficiency on the ceremony? Who else can we count on to sing on the Oscars stage? Right here’s what we all know thus far:
Will there be a Depraved Oscar Efficiency?
Will we get an Oz-inspired efficiency on the Academy Awards this 12 months? It’s nonetheless onerous to inform. A couple of weeks again, studies emerged on-line alleging that the Academy was seeking to have a medley of songs from the hit movie open the ceremony, carried out after all, by nominees Erivo and Grande.
Simply after that information hit the web, nonetheless, Erivo was fast to close that rumor down…properly, kind of. She instructed Selection whereas on the Critics Selection Awards, “Why does everybody hold saying that? I don’t know the place this has come from … this seems like wishful considering to me, personally. Why on Earth would we be singing?”
She added, “Persons are asking me if we’re going to be singing on the Oscars. I don’t know why we might be doing that, since our track shouldn’t be nominated. That doesn’t occur. I don’t know what to let you know.”
Ariana Grande Provides Us a Bit Extra Hope
Grande, nonetheless, when talking to IndieWire, had a little bit of a looser reply, leaving the door open far more than her co-star. “Yeah, I don’t know both,” she stated coyly when interviewed by the outlet, earlier than then admitting, “it might be actually enjoyable.”
“We can have our thermoses, our pink and inexperienced thermoses, full of tea,” she added. “Hers will in all probability be rose and an English breakfast blended collectively or one thing like that. In case, we’ll be prepared, however I do know nothing.”
Will There Be Performances At All?
As Selection factors out, Erivo’s logic doesn’t significantly maintain up, particularly as a result of the Academy introduced weeks in the past that this 12 months’s ceremony can be completely different in gentle of the tragic fires in Los Angeles. In an official assertion, they revealed that they are going to be “shifting away” from authentic track performances, as a substitute choosing “private reflections” from the songwriters themselves.
“We’ll have a good time their artistry by means of private reflections from the groups who convey these songs to life. All of this, and extra, will uncover the tales and inspiration behind this 12 months’s nominees,” Academy members, CEO Invoice Kramer and President Janet Yang shared in a press release.
That being stated, it’s onerous to think about a complete telecast with out a single musical efficiency in any respect. Particularly when the present has one of many strongest film musicals we’ve seen within the historical past of the medium nominated for greatest image.
We nonetheless have somewhat over per week earlier than the Oscars return, which after all, means something might occur. Within the meantime, we’ve bought our eyes on the Witches of Oz (Erivo and Grande), in hopes that they provide us any clues or indicators as as to whether or not a “Depraved” efficiency might actually be a chance nonetheless.