Oscars standing ovations - devalued?

[thguy65]

I am not a close follower of Oscar minutiae, but it seemed that this year's ceremony had many standing ovations for generally routine stuff (such as the song performances)

Contrast this to a few years back with the standing o's seemed to meet arbitrary but somewhat higher standards.
http://www.goldderby.com/news/2975/acad ... 68097.html

Do those folks in the Dolby Theater just want to stretch their legs more often, or is this likely to keep escalating until the accountants get a standing ovation?

[TheConfessor]

The first person to stand often gets some TV screen time. That might explain a lot.

[mrkelley23]

That and the fact that standing ovations are overly common these days. High school productions, community theatre, everybody gets standing ovations these days -- to the point that the performers are highly honked off if they don't get one.

Yes, I'm that one grumpy guy who doesn't stand unless the performance was extraordinary.

[MarleysGh0st]

That and the fact that standing ovations are overly common these days. High school productions, community theatre, everybody gets standing ovations these days -- to the point that the performers are highly honked off if they don't get one.

Yes, I'm that one grumpy guy who doesn't stand unless the performance was extraordinary.

If I ever go back to a SyndieBAM taping, I'll be that guy refusing to stand when everyone's giving a standing o for the completely random (and yet utterly routine and predictable) reveal of a $25K value to the question.

And I'd love for the warm-up comedian to challenge me. "I didn't come to see Deal or No Deal, dude."

[silverscreenselect]

I am not a close follower of Oscar minutiae, but it seemed that this year's ceremony had many standing ovations for generally routine stuff (such as the song performances)

One thing I was glad they stopped was the rather unseemly practice of applauding during the mention of people's names in the In Memoriam tribute. It had gotten to the stage of a dead person popularity contest and the Academy stopped it this year. There was a mere smattering of applause when the first name (James Gandolfini) was announced and then I'm guessing they did something to notify people not to applaud and they didn't after that. That plus having adding recently deceased personalities like Harold Ramis, a fair share of relatively obscure people like Jim Kelly, and waiting until the end to have Bette Midler come out to sing a tribute song made this the classiest tribute they've done in a long time.