25 Oscar Moments We Would Have Missed If They Didn't Air Every Category

As you may have heard, the Academy Awards are just around the corner! The nominations are out, and the ceremony is on March 27.

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Unfortunately, with viewership declining year after year, the Academy has decided to take matters into their own hands and cut 8 of the 23 categories from the telecast.

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The move has already drawn heavy criticism from those inside and outside of the industry alike. This is unsurprising, as the Academy tried to pull a similar move in 2019, which received so much blowback it was forced to air all categories as usual.

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In hopes that the Academy will see the error of their ways, reverse course, and #PresentAll23, here are a list of moments from Oscars past that we would have missed out on had they cut the eight proposed categories.

Here are 25 reasons they should keep all 23 categories on the telecast:

1.Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson make history by becoming the first Black winners (along with Sergio Lopez-Rivera) for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

2.Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein gives a moving speech when One Survivor Remembers wins Best Documentary Short in 1996.

3.Elinor Burkett interrupts Roger Ross Williams in the middle of his acceptance speech for documentary short Music for Prudence in 2010.

4."I'm not crying because I'm on my period or anything. I can't believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar."

5.Carol Dysinger tells girls never to give up while accepting an Oscar for her documentary short about girls learning to skateboard in Afghanistan.

6.Mad Max: Fury Road wins six Oscars (five in categories that will no longer be televised).

7.Naomi Watts and Benedict Cumberbatch explain just how pivotal film editing is before Whiplash takes home the Oscar.

8.How the Grinch Stole Christmas wins Best Makeup and Hairstyling after a fun montage about special effects makeup.

9.Dunkirk wins its three Oscars in Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Film Editing, giving blockbusters a presence on the telecast.

10.Jamie Foxx runs in slo-motion to the Chariots of Fire score while presenting Best Score.

11.Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win for their immaculate score for The Social Network.

12.Dancers perform to the five Best Score nominees in 2010 in one of the Oscars' more inventive presentations.

13.Hannah Beachler becomes the first Black woman to win a Production Design Oscar and celebrates with a tearful speech.

14.Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig show the Academy they are great dramatic actors before presenting the Best Production Design Oscar.

15.Kobe Bryant wins an Oscar for his short film, Dear Basketball, that is presented by BB-8.

16.Domee Shi becomes the first woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short for Bao.

17.Hair Love, a film about Black hair, wins Best Animated Short.

18.All of Walt Disney's 22 Oscar wins were in Best Short Film categories.

19.Travon Free uses his platform as the winner of Best Live Action Short to speak out against police brutality.

20.Martin McDonagh wins Best Live Action Short for Six Shooter four years before he'd return as a nominee for In Bruges.

21."It's a tie! Oh mon dieu!" — Two films tie for Best Live Action Short in 1995.

22.Jacob Tremblay and Abraham Attah present Best Live Action Short because they are short.

23.Sound of Metal wins the Oscar for Best Sound, bringing attention to the Deaf community.

24.Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty tie for Best Sound Editing in 2013.

25.And lastly, Arrival's only Oscar comes in Best Sound Editing.