Just few days ahead of the 89th Academy Awards, actor-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is nominated in the best original song category at the ceremony, says this year's Oscars will be a political affair. "It's a political time, so I imagine the Oscars will look exactly like your Twitter or Facebook feed. You always have to do this dance as a host: You're playing to a billion people at home, and you're playing to anxious contestants in a room, and that's an insanely hard thing to divide. Calling Oscars "larger-than-life thing", He further said watching the ceremony when he was a child was always a family thing. He still remembers watching the Academy Awards in 1990, rooting for "The Little Mermaid" to win best song and best score, the first time he "felt like I had a horse in the race."

Source: dna February 21, 2017 04:09 UTC