LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 2021 Oscars ceremony was moved to April from February on Monday owing to the havoc caused in the film marketplace by the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE Picture: Concluded mounted Oscar Statuettes are noticed at the Polich Tallix foundry in Walden, New York, U.S., January twenty five, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Picture
The ceremony for film’s optimum honors will acquire position on April twenty five, 2021, the Academy of Movement Photograph Arts and Sciences reported in a statement. It had initially been scheduled for Feb. 28.
The coronavirus epidemic shut down film theaters throughout the world in mid-March and brought output of films to a halt.
The Academy also prolonged the deadline by which movies will have to be unveiled in get to be suitable for an Oscar nomination to Feb. 28, 2021, from Dec. 31, 2020.
“Our hope, in extending the eligibility interval and our Awards day, is to present the flexibility filmmakers require to finish and release their films without the need of remaining penalized for some thing past anyone’s regulate,” Academy President David Rubin and Academy Chief Govt Dawn Hudson reported in a statement.
The output shutdown intended that several filmmakers feared their movies would not be finished by the standard yr-conclusion Oscar eligibility deadline. Dozens of other film releases have been moved to 2021.
It was only the fourth time in the 93-yr historical past of the Academy Awards that the day has been adjusted in 1938, owing to floods in Los Angeles, in 1968 due to the fact of the assassination of civil legal rights chief Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1981 immediately after the tried assassination of then-President Ronald Reagan.
The new day for the Oscars is anticipated to prompt the Golden Globes and other award displays to also reschedule their activities.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on Monday reported it was shifting its movie awards ceremony to April 11 from Feb. fourteen.
Hollywood movies had been previous week supplied the environmentally friendly light-weight to resume output in the Los Angeles space with in depth recommendations on social distancing and regular testing. Even so, most are not anticipated to resume right up until September.
Hollywood hopes the big film theater chains will reopen by late July, when thriller “Tenet” and “Mulan” are owing to be unveiled.
Reporting by Jill Serjeant Modifying by Chizu Nomiyama, Richard Chang and Jonathan Oatis
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