Oscars 2022 will now happen on March 27. (Courtesy: AFP)
Highlights
- Oscars will happen at their conventional venue – Dolby Theatre
- The relaxed eligibility guidelines can be saved in place attributable to COVID
- The eligibility necessities can be identical because the 93rd Academy Awards
Los Angeles:
The Oscars have been postponed for a second consecutive 12 months, and relaxed eligibility guidelines permitting movies to skip film theaters can be saved in place because of the pandemic, the Academy stated Thursday.
The 94th Academy Awards will now happen on March 27, 2022, precisely a month later than initially deliberate, and are set to return to their conventional venue at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
After scores nosedived for this 12 months’s uncommon, pandemic-affected Oscars — which had been held at a Los Angeles prepare station — the postponement avoids probably pricey clashes with the Tremendous Bowl and Winter Olympics.
American soccer’s greatest occasion takes place in Los Angeles subsequent 12 months on February 13, whereas the worldwide winter sports activities extravaganza is because of be held in Beijing from February 4-20.
However the influence of Covid-19 — which remodeled Hollywood’s award season final 12 months, shuttering film theaters, delaying dozens of main movies and forcing many ceremonies to go surfing — additionally continues to be felt.
Historically the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences requires no less than a seven-day run in Los Angeles theaters for motion pictures to be eligible for Hollywood’s greatest prize.
With huge screens closed, these guidelines had been relaxed final 12 months, in what was broadly seen as a lift for motion pictures on streaming platforms akin to Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video.
“This 12 months, which remains to be impacted by the pandemic, eligibility necessities for the 94th Academy Awards can be according to the addendums made for the 93rd Awards season,” stated the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences in a press release.
Movies launched at theaters in 5 main cities exterior Los Angeles will stay eligible, and the modifications are set to be prolonged into the next 12 months’s Oscars, and probably past.
Nonetheless, with US film theaters now largely reopened and movie manufacturing accelerating once more, final 12 months’s determination to increase the calendar window wherein movies could be launched and nonetheless qualify for Oscars is not going to be repeated.
Movies wishing to contend for subsequent 12 months’s Oscars should be launched by December 31.
The Academy’s determination to delay may trigger different main Hollywood award ceremonies to observe swimsuit in a domino impact.
However NBC has already introduced that subsequent 12 months’s conventional season-opening Golden Globes is not going to be broadcast attributable to an ongoing row over the organizers’ document on variety and transparency.
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