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Did Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony achieve its goal, stated earlier this month by academy president David Rubin, to “prioritize the television audience, to increase viewer engagement and keep the show vital, kinetic, and relevant”? Um, be careful what you wish for, Oscar. The 94th annual Oscars, hosted by Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall and Amy Schumer, was a very strange night, to put it mildly. Before things began, it seemed like we’d be talking about “The Power of the Dog” and about the academy’s strange decision to present eight of the categories in a pre-show, not showing them live. Inst…