For the fourth time in its historical past, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences and the ABC Tv Community stated Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now be held April 25, 2021, eight weeks later than initially deliberate due to the pandemic’s results on the film business.

The Academy’s Board of Governors additionally determined to increase the eligibility window past the calendar 12 months to Feb. 28, 2021, for characteristic movies, and delay the opening of the Academy Museum of Movement Footage from December till April 30, 2021.

“Our hope, in extending the eligibility interval and our Awards date, is to supply the flexibleness filmmakers want to complete and launch their movies with out being penalized for one thing past anybody’s management,” stated Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Daybreak Hudson in a joint assertion.

Karey Burke, the president of ABC Leisure, added: “We discover ourselves in uncharted territory this 12 months and can proceed to work with our companions on the Academy to make sure subsequent 12 months’s present is a secure and celebratory occasion.”

The 12th annual Governors Awards has additionally been canceled. The occasion, during which honorary Oscars are bestowed to beforehand introduced recipients, is usually held in Los Angeles through the second week of November. The untelevised occasion is a significant gathering for lots of the 12 months’s awards hopefuls.

The movie academy has been grappling with easy methods to deal with the pandemic’s close to shutdown of the theatrical exhibition and movie manufacturing and pageant enterprise since mid-March. With theaters shuttered, launch dates pushed and main festivals like Cannes canceled, the academy in April made the unprecedented decision to allow films that did not have a theatrical run to be eligible for the awards — however just for one 12 months.

The Oscars ceremony date was the massive lingering unknown, nevertheless. The group’s management has acknowledged all alongside that the scenario was fluid and that every part was on the desk. Now, Oscars nominations will probably be introduced on March 15 and the nominees luncheon will probably be on April 15.

Nonetheless, many selections must be made. Academy management has not but addressed the format of the present and whether or not it will likely be digital or in-person. Additional, the long run eligibility of movies for the 94th Oscars and that present date will probably be introduced later.

The Oscars have been postponed earlier than, however by no means this far prematurely. The ceremony was pushed again per week due to disastrous flooding in Los Angeles in 1938. In 1968, it was delayed two days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And in 1981, it was postpone for 24 hours after President Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington D.C. The 1981 choice was made 4 hours earlier than the printed was scheduled to start.

The eligibility window was prolonged past 12 months as soon as earlier than — prematurely of the sixth Academy Awards in 1934.

Different leisure business awards exhibits are additionally in flux. The 74th Tony Awards, initially set for June 7, has been postponed indefinitely. However the 72nd Emmy Awards continues to be holding onto Sept. 20. The BAFTAs introduced Monday that its annual movie awards have been being pushed from Feb. 14, 2021 to April 11. And the 78th Golden Globes doesn’t but have a date.

Even because the nation begins to “open up,” studios are nonetheless making choices to delay releases. Simply Friday, Warner Bros. announced that it was pushing back what was presupposed to be the primary main film in theaters, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” by two weeks.

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