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56th Oscars – The Academy Awards

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Apr 1984

Special Interest

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Johnny Carson hosts again with diminishing returns and riffs about his latest divorce in a 56th Oscars that hardly endears itself to viewers with its mammoth runtime and lack of suspense.

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Catharine Rambeau

Detroit Free Press

04/17/2021

Badly paced, badly engineered, and -- most unforgivable -- boring.

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Jerry Coffey

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

04/17/2021

Nothing that goes on during an Oscarcast is worth the tedium dumbly endured by the ever-gullible audience for moviedom's annual spasm of gross self-indulgence.

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Mike Duffy

Detroit Free Press

04/17/2021

Johnny Carson, once again the invaluable host, added some much needed spice with well-timed zingers. And I especially enjoyed Jack Nicholson's impersonation of a Blues Brother behind those black be-bopper shades.

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Diane Holloway

Austin American-Statesman

04/17/2021

All in all, it was a better show than last year's, and much of the credit goes to Johnny Carson, who kept things moving when he could and joked about them when he couldn't.

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Patrick Taggart

Austin American-Statesman

04/16/2021

The Oscar went to the predictable choice in every case, and not only were there no surprises among the awards, there weren't even any of those deliciously embarrassing moments that make live television what it is.

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Network: ABC
Genre: Special Interest
Release Date: Apr 9, 1984

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