“This is not to say that performers shouldn't be given awards during the year of our Satan 2020 — it is to say that we don't have to cling so heavily to the pre-pandemic days, at least while there's still no vaccine in sight.”— Rosemary Donahue, allure.com
“This could have been the best Academy Awards ever. Instead, there’s a good chance that Anne Hathaway and James Franco’s sad 2011 performance will be inching up the list.”— Anne Cohen, refinery29.com
“Leave it to the man who directed the Oscars to find a way to upstage the Emmys.”— Lauren Messman, vice.com