Al Pacino explains why he didn't say Best Picture titles in Oscars presentation

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Al Pacino explains why he didn't say Best Picture titles in Oscars presentation
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Al Pacino clarifies that it was a production decision, not his intention, to skip reading the 10 films nominated for Best Picture before announcing a winner at the Oscars. There has been some controversy surrounding his omission of the film names.

Al Pacino reveals why he didn't say Best Picture titles in Oscars presentation: 'Seems to be some controversy' EW has learned that it was a decision 'made in creative' to have Pacino skip reading the 10 films nominated for Best Picture before announcing a winner. Entertainment Weekly's Oscars expert, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' beat reporter, host of 'Quick Drag' Twitter Spaces, and cohost of 'EW's BINGE' podcast. Almost all of the drag content on this site is my fault (you're welcome).

is clarifying why he didn't say hello to his 10 little friends — okay, okay, movie titles — that were nominated for Best Picture as he presented thestar issued a statement to EW explaining that it was a production decision to have him not recite the names of the nominated films. 'There seems to be some controversy about my not mentioning every film by name last night before announcing the Best Picture award,' Pacino said. 'I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit them, rather a choice by the producers not to have them said again since they were highlighted individually throughout the ceremon

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