Up next, Jack Valenti… where’s the hook?

First use of music to shut up a winner: After naming every person in the Western Hemisphere, the winner of Best Live Action Short Film is interrupted in the middle of the moving part of his acceptance speech by the music that, effectively, drowns him out. It seems, as always, an unnecessary. — and tacky — tactic. They sure won’t do the same thing to Jack Valenti . Which certainly would be more deserving.