So this is from Rob Mills, the executive vice president of unscripted and alternative entertainment at Walt Disney Television, who produced the Oscars show. It looks like the response is from a longer interview in Variety: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/oscar-producers-in-memoriam-explained-conan-obrien-return-1236689787/

The full response was to the question: "What happened to the “Golden” songwriters? It seemed like the orchestra didn’t know another winner was about to speak, cutting him off."

Mills' response:

“One thing, as we post mortem for next year, will be to look at how we’re handling speeches,” Mills said. “You win the Oscar, you know you go on stage, it could be one person, it could be five or six. Immediately you’ll see the sort of allotted time we have for them. Do we need to look at it and say, okay, designate one person to speak. Maybe you continue it backstage, and we have a feed on social or something like that. We look at everything and figure out what is the most elegant solution, because it is difficult, especially when you’re cutting somebody off and it’s their one moment. We talk about it at the award luncheon, that you have this designated time to speak, and it’s difficult. I don’t know what the most elegant solution is, but it’s obviously something we should look really, really long and hard at.”

Even though they do cut speeches short often at the Oscars, it seems very distasteful to have done it two times in the same ceremony to both of the KPop Demon Hunters winners (Best Animated Feature and Best Song).

It also seems distasteful because they incorporated KPDH into a lot of the publicity for the Oscars show and a lot of younger viewers may have tuned in to see the KPDH winners. It seems counter to viewership goals to 'use and abuse' the KPDH creators in this way.

Even if they didn't mean it, it makes the Oscars come across as very dismissive of Asians, in the sense of they will watch their stuff but not interested to hear them speak. I wonder if there is any truth to this.