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85th Oscars – The Academy Awards

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Feb 2013

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The multitalented Seth MacFarlane's appointment as Oscars host may have seemed like a surefire bet, but the edgy funnyman makes for a disappointing master of ceremonies during an 85th Oscars that is mired in distasteful jokes and misogynistic gags.

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Verne Gay

Newsday

11/01/2019

[A] fascinating fiasco.

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Troy Patterson

Slate

10/30/2019

A-

As a knee-jerk MacFarlane skeptic who predicted that the producers and the host would crash and burn, I found myself eating those words like so much popcorn. This was the best Oscar broadcast I can remember.

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Willa Paskin

Salon.com

10/30/2019

The academy, an institution allegedly full of women, homosexuals and bleeding heart liberals, elected a brotastic, tux-wearing dude who probably believes ogling women is the highest form of flattery to be its emissary for the night.

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Bill Gibron

PopMatters

10/30/2019

The Academy of Motion Picture Sciences tried Family Guy humor for a while, and turned their annual self-congratulatory pat on the back into a 50/50 farce of unfunny jokes and occasional jaw-dropping decisions.

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Chris Barsanti

PopMatters

10/30/2019

The Academy Awards is decadent and depraved, an overwrought spectacle whose confused, junk-food emptiness is exceeded only by the Super Bowl. It will apparently always be thus, whether Seth MacFarlane is there or not.

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Network: ABC
Genre: Special Interest
Release Date: Feb 24, 2013

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