What Can the Oscars Learn from the BAFTAs?

Notes from last night's -- or, afternoon's -- telecast.

Every year, producers, critics, and Twitterers (it’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me) fret about the Oscars telecast: what it’s going to do, what it should do, why it never seems to get it right, and why — most of all — it’s always so freaking long. The BAFTAs runtime is listed on the BBC as a crisp two hours, an efficiency of which the Oscars can only…