It is being reported that the Academy is considering VAR for next year’s Oscars.
VAR is the ‘video assistant referee’ that is being used by a number of football associations to aid in the accuracy of decision making.
“It’s something we’re looking into,” confirmed Academy representative Stewart James.
“I mean, we just want to make sure all our decisions are correct and sometimes, you know, Academy members are humans and make the wrong call.
“Introducing VAR could allow members to take another look at controversial decisions and maybe rethink them.”
Mr James denied that the news had anything to do with Green Book’s recent Oscars triumph.
“This has nothing to do with a particular incident,” he claimed, reasonably convincingly.
“For all we know, VAR night agree that Green Book was a better film than Roma, or The Favourite, or Blackkklansman.
“But I think that everyone can agree that it would be quite nice to go back and check sometimes. “
“We just want to get it right.”
However, there are those who are strongly opposed to the introduction of VAR as arguing about decisions after the Oscars is part of the fun.
“Making it perfect would lose the charm of the Oscars,” claimed Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, and Peter Farrell.
“Unless they’re not introducing it now to look at the Oscars just gone, in which case, fine.”
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