Can the Oscars Avoid the Curse of Pandemic-Era Awards Shows?

Singer-songwriters Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and Celeste lead the competition for the Brit Awards, with a trio of nominations apiece for the U.K. music prizes.

Chris Willman Music WriterFresh off her flurry of Grammy attention, Dua Lipa is one of the leading contenders for this year’s Brit Awards in nominations announced Wednesday. Lipa has three nods, as does Celeste, who’s currently up for a best original song Oscar in America, as well.A total of six performers are tied with three nominations apiece.

due to the coronavirus pandemic — with studios repeatedly pushing release dates and film festivals scrapping plans or moving online — prompting awards bodies to postpone their respective telecasts and adjust eligibility rules to account for continued uncertainty.Below, ET has your handy awards season calendar to keep you up to date as we learn more about what's to come for the Oscars, Golden Globes, GRAMMYs, BAFTA Awards and more.The 78th annual Golden Globe Awards — originally scheduled for the

Dua Lipa and Griff will perform at this year’s BRIT Awards, organisers have revealed.This year’s awards ceremony will take place on May 11 at The O2 Arena and will be hosted by Jack Whitehall for the fourth year running.Speaking about the news, Dua Lipa said: “I am so excited to be returning to perform for you all at The BRITs this year.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterWhen “Godzilla vs. Kong” debuts in the U.S.

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Testing, distancing, masking — and that's if it's in person," says photographer Austin Hargrave (pictured), who shot THR's Toronto Film Festival portfolio (among others) during quarantine.

Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong will slug it out in 38 offshore markets this weekend beginning Wednesday in such hubs as Mexico, Taiwan, Indonesdia and India; followed by Russia, Korea and Australia among others on Thursday and China notably on Friday. The Adam Wingard-directed pic is releasing abroad ahead of domestic which falls on March 31 day-and-date in theaters and on HBO Max.

The 73rd Writers Guild Awards is underway in a virtual ceremony, honoring the best in original and adapted screenplay and documentary, TV, new media, news, radio/audio and promotional writing.

No big shock here: Veteran director Glenn Weiss will be returning to helm the Oscars for the sixth straight year.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticChanneling the aesthetic and urgency of a driven multimedia creator, “Wojnarowicz” chronicles the too-short life of a determinedly “outsider” artist who was among the most furiously outspoken victims of the AIDS epidemic.

March 2021 has been full of reminders of the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. “The Last Cruise” trailer invokes one of the earliest indicators that something was about the change — the Diamond Princess Curse ship.

Judas and the Black Messiah writer-director Shaka King has been named honorary chair at the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The news comes a day after Judas and the Black Messiah nabbed six Oscar nominations, including a best original screenplay nom for King.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentThe pandemic has led to changes in production that could well be permanent, but its effect on content going forward is less clear.

about women. It’s the narrative that makes the Recording Academy and their choices look positive.

Jessica Kiang Veering between profundity, faux profundity and a faintly discernible mockery of those who might mistake one for the other, Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté administers a thimbleful of COVID-era potion with “Social Hygiene,” which brought him the best director prize in the Berlinale Encounters sidebar (shared with Ramon and Silvan Zürcher for “The Girl and the Spider”).