--- title: The Oscars 2019 Cut Categories and People Have Thoughts description: People aren't happy with the Academy for relegating four Oscar categories to commercial breaks for the 91st Academy Awards. canonical: https://time.com/5528531/oscars-cut-categories/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-13T16:39:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:28.511Z og:title: The Oscars Cut Categories and People Have a Lot of Thoughts og:description: "No one single film has ever existed without CINEMAtography" og:url: https://time.com/5528531/oscars-cut-categories/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f7212b997993d9/69894511656a3f2340bd69f1/oscars-2019-commercial-categories.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Oscars-2019-Commercial-Categories og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Oscars Cut Categories and People Have a Lot of Thoughts twitter:description: "No one single film has ever existed without CINEMAtography" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f7212b997993d9/69894511656a3f2340bd69f1/oscars-2019-commercial-categories.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Aren't Too Happy That These Oscar Categories Are Cut From the Broadcast  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 13, 2019 4:39 PM UTC  Oscar statue watches over the 91st Oscars Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Feb. 4, 2019. Oscar statue watches over the 91st Oscars Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Feb. 4, 2019.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 13, 2019 4:39 PM UTC People aren’t too happy with the [Oscars](http://time.com/5508314/where-to-stream-oscars-nominations/) for relegating [four categories](http://time.com/5506988/91st-academy-award-nominations/) to commercial breaks for the [91st Academy Awards](http://time.com/5517545/everything-to-know-2019-oscars/). In the wake of the [Academy’s announcement](https://variety.com/2019/film/news/oscar-academy-anger-broadcast-commercials-cinematography-1203137546/) that the awards for cinematography, film editing, live-action short, and makeup and hairstyling will be presented off-air when the 2019 Oscars are broadcast on Feb. 24, some who were critical of the switch-up took to Twitter to voice their disapproval. Alfonso Cuarón, who is nominated for producing, directing, writing and cinematography for his film _Roma_, slammed the Academy for its exclusion of cinematography and editing in particular. “In the history of CINEMA, masterpieces have existed without sound, without color, without a story, without actors and without music,” he tweeted. “No one single film has ever existed without CINEMAtography and without editing.” > [](https://twitter.com/alfonsocuaron/status/1095296467244326913) Others took a more comical route to express their objections. “Just heard the Academy is giving out Best Actress tonight in the parking lot of Rite Aid on Santa Monica and La Brea around 2am,” actor Billy Eichner joked. “This isn’t right.” > [](https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1095519917707644928) ABC has said that it will live-stream the cut award presentations online as well as air them later in the broadcast. See some more reactions to this 2019 Oscars controversy below. > [](https://twitter.com/ColinHanks/status/1095393056184913920) > [](https://twitter.com/nickmurftweets/status/1095321532287668224) > [](https://twitter.com/cbeilinson/status/1095134662479888385) > [](https://twitter.com/robbiereviews/status/1095088999327240192) > [](https://twitter.com/Barrenrun/status/1095179086639489026) > [](https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/1095482783856644096) > [](https://twitter.com/frankpallotta/status/1095097796133376001) > [](https://twitter.com/JennRavenna/status/1095157627670081536) > [](https://twitter.com/elleschneider/status/1095250520950751232) > [](https://twitter.com/ScottWamplerBMD/status/1095089607048351750) > [](https://twitter.com/joss/status/1095395078913241088) The Oscars 2019 Cut Categories and People Have Thoughts ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5528531/oscars-cut-categories/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5528531/oscars-cut-categories/"},"headline":"People Aren't Too Happy That These Oscar Categories Are Cut From the Broadcast","datePublished":"2019-02-13T16:39:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:28.511Z","description":"\"No one single film has ever existed without CINEMAtography\"","url":"https://time.com/5528531/oscars-cut-categories/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","onetime","oscars 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f7212b997993d9/69894511656a3f2340bd69f1/oscars-2019-commercial-categories.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02f7212b997993d9/69894511656a3f2340bd69f1/oscars-2019-commercial-categories.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Oscars-2019-Commercial-Categories","caption":"Oscar statue watches over the 91st Oscars Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton hotel on February 4, 2019 in Beverly Hills.","creditText":"Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5528531/oscars-cut-categories/","name":"People Aren't Too Happy That These Oscar Categories Are Cut From the Broadcast"}}]}] ```