How To Sound Profound
For the last few years, the Academy has pleaded with nominated actors to keep their speeches brief. This year, they also hope to convince them to be a little more entertaining, too. “You can either give a laundry list of thank yous and make those 20 people happy,” says Laura Ziskin, producer of the 74th Academy Awards, “or you can make the millions of people watching happy by telling us what it feels like to win an Oscar....