The Oscars ceremony in April will be an personal, in-individual collecting, held without Zoom and restricted to nominees, presenters and their attendees, the producers claimed on Thursday.
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the clearly show to hand out the highest honours in the movie field will be held both of those at the Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles and the regular home of the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Absolutely everyone will be tested, and there will be a COVID-19 safety team on site throughout the night on April 25.
“There will not be an option to Zoom in for the demonstrate,” producers Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher said in a be aware to the extra than 200 nominees this year.
“We are going to great lengths to offer a harmless and enjoyable night for all of you in human being, as properly as for all the millions of film supporters close to the world, and we experience the virtual issue will diminish those initiatives,” the producers included.
They said nominees and their guests would obtain at a courtyard in the Union rail station, when other demonstrate elements would be held reside inside of the Dolby Theatre some 13 km absent.
Normally, hundreds of the world’s prime film stars would gather in the 3,400-seat theater for a live clearly show preceded by a red carpet packed with photographers and digicam crews.
Other awards exhibits in recent months have replaced the usual gatherings at gala dinners and on phase with pre-recorded appearances or digital occasions or a mixture.
Television audiences have slumped, with the Golden Globes and the Grammys attracting the smallest figures in many years.
Nominations for the Oscars had been declared on Monday with 1930s Hollywood drama Mank leading the discipline with 10. Pursuing was a 6-way, six-nomination tie among Black Panther biopic Judas and the Black Messiah, modern day itinerant tale Nomadland, The Father, The Demo of the Chicago 7, loved ones drama Minari and Amazon Studio’s character review of a deaf musician in Seem of Metal