Hero entertainer and thinker Ann Magnuson has some truly excellent suggestions on how to improve the Oscars. For one thing? "More clip montages! Tom Ford could present the Glamour Montage, Tarantino puts together A Bit of the Old Ultra-Violent Montage, Meryl Streep hosts the Accent Montage, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Lee present the Sexy Vampire Montage, and Jon Voight presents How Hollywood Liberals are Destroying the Country Montage." Oh, yes please. Also? Yearly themes!
There should be dress code "themes" for each year, a la Truman Capote's famous 1966 Black and White Ball. The first theme, to honor the new "old" location, would be the year 1962. Think JFK's inaugural ball meets "Mad Men" and Tom Ford's "A Single Man," with everyone dressed in black and white with accents of green and gold, as seen in the glittering decor inside the pavilion.
The next year, we could progress to Fellini. All will be sent screeners of "Toby Dammit" and expected to dress like those in the Ferrari/award ceremony sequence. Later, the academy could turn to ancient Rome. All are sent screeners of the 1953 film "Quo Vadis." Women are asked to pay close attention to Deborah Kerr's dazzling Technicolor costumes, while men can go in Tom Ford or full-on Praetorian Guard. Togas, of course, would be "too much." Finally, we reach the ultimate goal – Pasolini's "Salo" – and members are asked to dress and act accordingly.

Too much Tom Ford.
'Great Gatsby'+ 'Brideshead Revisited' mashup plz.
Jane Austen/Bronte sisters. Bonnets and sideburns mandatory. Swoon!
Pasolini's Medea = Maria Callas + Insane Necklaces + Crazy Space Tunics.
Could. Not. Lose.
And scruffy gay-vague Argonauts in crotch-skimming tunics, don't forget them.
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Snipers to reinforce speech time limits!
Paint guns at a minimum. Or Nickelodeon slime?
But you can't do that on television--
Instruct the presenters to remove, by force if necessary, any notes, folded-up bits of paper or 3 x5 index cards from the hands of winners. Either that, or turn off the microphone after the seventh proper name is babbled.
"Precious" theme, please, culminating in Angelina Jolie confronting John Voight for "what he did".
Note: I haven't seen Precious.
Note: I think it might be "Anjelina". And cannot be bothered to check.
The Oscars could be really fun if An(j)(g)elina and so on didn't come. Or maybe just the kids in their place.
I would DIE to see an Academy Awards show that has as its theme "Casual". All the dudes are in cargo shorts and grungy t-shirts and all the girls are in skinny jeans and tanktops, with their hair in a ponytail. Just dress like you're in a Judd Apatow/Adam Sandler movie basically. A wrinkled, untucked blue oxford would be the MAXIMUM formality for either gender.
Can "You're with me, leather" be a theme?
+5,000
One night is a tribute to the surf movies of the 1960's.
West Side Story dance offs between Teams Brad/Jen/Angie.
I would like to see a Zardoz night, plzkthx.
Great ideas. No Country for Old Men night? Or a Wendy and Lucy night where each Oscar won takes one precious life-afirming thing thing away from a runaway who dreams of working in a fish factory? Start off the show with her onstage pushing a broken down car into a parking space in the background. By the end of the show while the credits roll show an awards-showish version of said runaway at the end of her ropes in a stylized freight car curled up in a fetal position crying as the credits roll.
Now that's entertainment!