Advertisers Turn the Oscars Into a Super Bowl-Like Platform<br />The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which is slated to open in 2019, showed its<br />first commercial (a faux spot for the Overlook Hotel of “The Shining” fame).<br />By DANIEL VICTORMARCH 4, 2018<br />If you only watched the commercials and not the awards part of the Oscars telecast,<br />you might have thought for a moment you were watching the Super Bowl.<br />Several advertisers offered cinematic spots that went beyond the usual fare, while others used it for unveilings.<br />Netflix teased the final season of “House of Cards,” and ABC used the occasion to release the trailer for its “Roseanne” revival.
