The 2023 Oscars Won’t Have a Red Carpet

On March 8, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gathered the press of Los Angeles for a very important announcement pertaining to this year’s Academy Awards ceremony: The star-studded preshow space is being reimagined and taken in a new creative direction … by your coastal grandmother. Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel announced that, in a change to over 60 years of history, the show’s red carpet will be torn out. In its place, the organization (literally) rolled out a brand-new “Champagne” carpet. And Champagne, it turns out, looks a whole lot like beige.
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