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As last year's Oscars ceremony proved by gathering herds of nominees from the unsexy categories on stage to better catch their post-loss expressions of sorrow in a single, wide-angle shot, the show's producers aren't afraid to tinker with their formula. But this year, they may have gone too far, as we've heard that the Academy is planning on halting the event's open bar once the proceedings begin, hoping that charging for cocktails will keep people in their seats and stop them from congregating near the booze. Never having attended the Oscar ceremony, this information doesn't affect our lives in any appreciable way (the hooch will be free-flowing at Defamer HQ), but the operative bearing the news assures us that the choice to use a cash bar will result in nothing short of awards show apocalypse, and is still holding out hope that this disastrous policy will be reversed before a despondent Best Supporting Actress runner-up realizes that she's not carrying any money and stabs a bartender just following orders in the throat with a thousand-dollar stiletto heel.