The Academy Awards are 98 years younger in 2026, however the subsequent century of Oscar is probably going going to look very totally different. With the ceremony’s upcoming pivot from linear tv to YouTube in 2029 — to not point out debates over how awards season operates in addition to the bigger financial woes going through the movie trade — huge adjustments are probably in retailer for Hollywood’s premiere movie awards occasion.
But we won’t perceive the place the Oscars are going with out wanting again at the place they have been. Enter the new NCS FlashDoc manufacturing Hollywood and the Oscars: Still Golden? Gold Derby is debuting an unique clip from the documentary (watch it above) that’s newly streaming on the NCS app and premieres March 14 at 10 p.m. ET — the evening earlier than the 2026 ceremony — on the cable information community.
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Still Golden? explores the past, current and future of the Academy Awards with professional commentary from the likes of former Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, trade specialists Matt Belloni and Sam Sanders, and The Hollywood Reporter‘s govt editor of awards, Scott Feinberg.
Both Isaacs and Feinberg seem on this unique clips, which appears to be like again at the early years of the Oscars when the main film studios had been nonetheless uncertain about making their expertise accessible for the annual awards ceremony, particularly as soon as it began it being broadcast on the huge display’s biggest rival — tv. “It was an evening where you got to see your favorite actors be themselves,” Isaacs notes. “To see them as human beings is one of the biggest draws.”
“What tipped the tide of Hollywood in favor of supporting the broadcasting of the Oscars was the clear effect the Oscars had when someone was rewarded,” Feinberg says of why the studios lastly gave in. “It was a great driver of business to the movies.”
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