The Oscar Ceremony Gets a Makeover, Thanks to the Man Who Designed Its Home - NYTimes.com

Film - The Oscar Ceremony Gets a Makeover, Thanks to the Man Who Designed Its Home - NYTimes.com: "With last year’s Oscar viewership at an all-time low, Mr. Rockwell, who also designed the plush Kodak Theater, is out to do no less than “redefine the show’s DNA,” as he put it. (This year’s mantra: “More intimacy. Less multiple layers of lame.”) Along with the executive producer Bill Condon (director of “Dreamgirls”) and the veteran producer Laurence Mark, Mr. Rockwell — the first architect to design the show — is turning back the clock, Benjamin Button-style, to recapture the show’s nightclubby, Champagne-popping, convivial, communal roots."