SZA, boygenius, Victoria Monét, Coco Jones and others take home awards at 66th annual ceremony, with major wins still to come
Earlier this week, Variety spoke to Ben Winston, the executive producer of tonight’s show, to find out what we might expect. Here are some key takeaways:
The in-memoriam segment is going to be “outstanding” with “16 minutes of music” and a performer who signed on last-minute.
There have been “Zooms with Bono” to arrange the specifics of the U2 performance, which will be the first time anyone has filmed inside the Sphere with the help of drones.
We can expect some “really beautiful story-of-the-year packages” before some of the big performances.
OK, so not about tonight, but he did say that JLo and Bad Bunny were, ahem, not super punctual for last year’s ceremony despite both being part of the show.
I don’t ever take those moments for granted. I think to myself how crazy it is to even be in the same category as these people. When I was thinking of [doing] comedy, Dave Chappelle was already an accomplished comedian. When I was thinking of starting to maybe tell somebody a joke, Chris Rock was already one of the biggest comedians in the world, and the same goes for Wanda Sykes. So I have never been somebody who is in a rush to win or to be thought of as the best at anything. I’m really, really, really not even saying this just to be humble or anything. I’m really happy and grateful to just be in that company.”
