The Academy Admits Its Mistake and will Air All 24 Categories at Upcoming Oscars | No Film School

We were hoping that this would be the appropriate end to a long and hard week of debate, and indeed it is: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has just announced that it will air all 24 Oscar categories during the Academy Awards telecast live on February 24th, 2019.

In what amounted to a bad decision made worse, the Academy had previously double-downed on its decision to host the Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Makeup & Hairstyling, and Best Live Action - Short competitive Oscar categories during commercial breaks of the ABC telecast, but when that didn't fly with much of the industry, the Academy had to admit its wrongful decision. As is tradition, each Academy Award will now be presented live on air.

In a curt statement, the Academy acknowledged that it "has heard the feedback from its membership regarding the Oscar presentation of four awards – Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling. All Academy Awards will be presented without edits, in our traditional format. We look forward to Oscar Sunday, February 24."

To celebrate the decision made by the Academy to air all 24 categories live next Sunday, take a watch of Roger Deakins' speech last year as he accepts the Best Cinematography Oscar for his work on Blade Runner 2049.

Will you be watching the Academy Awards live next Sunday? Let us know in the comments below.

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Why Did Danny Boyle Shoot ‘28 Years Later’ on an iPhone 15?

Here’s everything we know about the reports of the new ‘28 Years Later’ thriller being shot on an iPhone 15.

Move over, Sean Baker and Steven Soderbergh—Danny Boyle is the latest director to make the bold choice to shoot his latest feature film on an iPhone. Why, you ask? Partly, perhaps, because the team knows it will get them some nice headlines like this one. And partly just because they can.

Whether you love or hate the idea of shooting professional video on iPhones, it’s hard to argue that these latest smartphones aren’t capable of high-end video.

The iPhone 15, which is what Boyle and his team reportedly used for the long-awaited follow-up to the original 28 Days Later in 2002 and its 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, in particular, has proven to be a major step forward for Apple and was very much promoted as a filmmaking-capable camera.

Still, as is always the case with these smartphone-shot feature films, there’s more to the story than just the headline here. So let’s explore how Danny Boyle and his team were able to shoot 28 Years Later on an iPhone.

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