I’ll tell you what it means. It means that the April 2021 Oscar telecast is not going to be some kind of downmarket, dumbbell, Vegas-friendly, Alan Carr-ish thing. It’s going to be smart, sleek, Soderberghian, sophisticated, economical, tailored to X-factor sensibilities, forward-looking, less-is-more-ish. It means that sorta kinda clueless Hollywood Blvd. tourists will not be invited into the Dolby auditorium because nobody wants to watch a bunch of jerks shooting the proceedings with their smartphones. It means that…I don’t actually know anything but with Soderbergh calling (some of) the shots, you know it’ll be some kind of Mr. Smartypants thang.
