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In the aftermath of an ugly spectacle on Sunday night, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may be tempted to count this year’s Oscar awards ceremony as their most embarrassing yet. But there is plenty of competition in this category, even if it’s not an honor just to be nominated.
Some may immediately think of the time in 2017 when presenters announced the wrong movie as the winner of the best picture award, but with the passage of time the smoother presentation of Oscars night in 2007 is looking harder to defend.
That was the year the film industry claimed that the best documentary of the year was Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” a frightening forecast of environmental doom. Conveniently for the world but inconveniently for the Academy’s reputation, some of the most hysterical predictions Mr. Gore has documented have not turned out to be true.
When Mr. Gore released a sequel in 2017, Bjorn Lomborg wrote in the Journal:
They say the sequel is always worse than the original, but Al Gore’s first film set the bar pretty low. Eleven years ago, “An Inconvenient Truth” hyped global warming by relying more on scare tactics than science. This weekend Mr. Gore is back with “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.” If the trailer is any indication, it promises to be more of the same.