Barry Diller Says the Oscars and
Movie Business are Dead
Posted By: Imright, 2/9/2023 8:44:43 PM
Barry Diller has run two studios, Paramount and Fox, and believes (correctly) that the Oscars and the movie business are both dead. Los Angeles Magazine scooped up all the Diller doomspeaking… “It’s an antiquity,” the current IAC and Expedia chairman told Firing Line‘s Margaret Hoover of the awards process. Citing the Riseborough Affair, Diller noted the internal collapse the movie and awards-show industry have long been suffering. “All awards ceremonies were based on this hierarchical process of a movie going to a theater, building up some word of mouth if it was successful, having that word of mouth carry itself over,” Diller said. “That path no longer exists.”
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and ‘my moral purpose was being a Democrat
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