The producers of the Academy Awards are conceding that despite hopes otherwise, this Sunday's telecast will run more than three hours. Meanwhile, the Motion Picture Academy separately announced that Bette Midler and Queen will perform and recent Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves will present at the ceremony.
"We were hired to deliver a shortened show," said Donna Gigliotti, co-producer with Massapequa Park native Glenn Weiss, in a New York Times story published Sunday. "How do we do that so you're not seeing award, award, commercial, award, commercial, award? So boring."
Yet after the Academy reversed course on Friday and said four categories consigned to commercial breaks would return to the live show, the organization asked her if the telecast could still be contained with three hours. "The answer was no," Gigliotti said.
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