Academy Limits Oscars to Nominees and Their Guests, Cancels Governors Ball and Nominees Lunch

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Oscars ceremony will be implementing “hubs” for nominees in London and Paris.Following the Academy’s initial and controversial “no-Zoom rule”, which aimed to encourage all nominees to travel to Los Angeles for the ceremony, the telecast producers are now introducing new physical locations.“We can just promise you that we will be more transparent from this point forward,” filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, one of the producers alongside Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher, told nominees on a Zoom call, per

Producers of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards updated nominees this morning on preparations for the show and the burning question of the moment:  Will nominees have to attend in person or is there another alternative?  The answer to that is for those considerable number of nominees stuck in Europe and other locales around the globe there will now be “hubs” in London and Paris where they can attend the show just as others hopefully will be doing the same thing at the Union Station in Los Angeles.

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no Zoom element to it. A letter from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released to the film industry website Deadline said: “Our plan is to stage an intimate, in-person event at Union station in Los Angeles, with additional show elements live from the Dolby theatre in Hollywood.

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coronavirus pandemic, the Academy Awards will not. On Monday, This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby spoke to Sam Rubin in Los Angeles about the Oscars update.

Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, awards season will continue on with its next event — the 93rd annual Academy Awards. The star-studded show is set to air live and in-person from Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre and Union Station.

contenders to win an Oscar and have been invited out to Los Angeles for a “safe and enjoyable evening” for nominees, guests, presenters and “millions of film fans around the world”. In a break from other recent award ceremonies, which have largely been held virtually, the show’s producers are attempting to inject some glamour back into the event, with “casual” attire banned and speeches encouraged to be short and personal.

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sent out to the nominees Thursday, Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins detailed the «safe and enjoyable» evening they have planned for the April 25th telecast. «Regarding the practical aspects of the show, our plan is to stage an intimate, in-person event at Union Station in Los Angeles, with additional show elements live from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,» the email states. The news comes just days after it was announced that the 2021 ceremony would only be open to presenters,

The 2021 Academy Awards will take place on April 25 with a live show from multiple locations in Los Angeles, but there will be limited attendees allowed at the show.

Academy Awards will be quite a bit different this year.

For years, specialty films have counted on an Oscar best picture nomination to provide a major boost at the box office. This time around, analysts are stumped as to how much the top nominees will benefit, considering that the box office has yet to recover from the pandemic.

The 2021 Oscars ceremony is going to socially distance from itself. The 93rd Academy Awards will be held in at least two locations, the Academy announced Monday.