The Chadwick Boseman gambit last year, where for the first and only time in history they left Best Actor as the final category, certain that his win would be an emotional capper to an uncertain Oscars in a turbulent year; instead, the award went to Anthony Hopkins who wasn’t there and was one of the few nominees who hadn’t even checked in on Zoom, and the ceremony ended abruptly and awkwardly with barely even a goodnight.
After that, I’d say they’d be crazy TO have Rita Moreno present the award- aside from Wayman’s point, no way do they’d chance the very real risk of having Moreno stand there and not only fail to symbolically pass the torch to the new Anita, but instead wind up handing it to a blonde white actress. |
