{"id":333034,"date":"2026-03-16T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:38:07","slug":"oscars-producer-on-cutting-kpop-demon-hunters-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333034\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars Producer on Cutting Kpop Demon Hunters Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the &#8220;Golden&#8221; songwriters weren&#8217;t the only ones who faced difficulties in getting their speeches in at the<a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/conan_obrien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Conan O&#8217;Brien<\/a>-hosted award show. After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1429759\/oscars-tie-explaining-best-live-action-short-film-category-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">historical tie in the Best Live Action Short Film category<\/a>, Two People Exchanging Saliva\u00a0filmmaker Alexandre Singh, who was asked to deliver his speech following the producers of The Singers, had his time cut short.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the microphone started to lower down into the stage just as he approached it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to say congratulations to both winners. You just ruined 22 million Oscar pools,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien quipped following the technical gaffe. &#8220;I know we&#8217;re tight, but to retract a microphone on a man as he&#8217;s speaking is hilarious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more winners at the 2026 Oscars, read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the &#8220;Golden&#8221; songwriters weren&#8217;t the only ones who faced difficulties in getting their speeches in at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-333034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}