How Oscar Producers are Navigating COVID-19 Restrictions on Hollywood’s Biggest Night of the Year

Carrie Underwood brought the Academy of Country Music Awards to church.Maren Morris won two honors, including song of the year. Miranda Lambert performed three times and held on to her record as the most decorated winner in ACM history.

Clayton Davis Oscars producer Steven Soderbergh maintained that masks would play “a very important role in the story” of the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, but kept the details under wraps.“If that’s cryptic, it’s meant to be,” Soderbergh said during a Saturday press conference. “That topic is very central to the narrative.”Joined with co-producers Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher, the trio took questions about the upcoming ceremony from Union Station in Los Angeles.

Oscar show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh this morning spelled out how Covid protocols would be integrated into the April 25th broadcast, and assured they are taking every measure to make sure all nominees and participants are safe throughout the three hour ceremony. Certainly with Soderbergh and Sher having also produced the prescient 2011 film, Contagion, they would seem to have a leg up on how to do it for the Academy Awards as well.

Producing the Oscars during a normal year is one of Hollywood’s most thankless jobs. It involves handing out 24 awards, while pleasing nervous nominees in the theater, distracted audiences at home and ratings-weary TV executives.

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The Met Gala is back on! The biggest night in fashion is officially returning with not just one, but two (we repeat: two!) Met Galas. Us Weekly confirmed that the first will take place on Monday, September 13, 2021, pending government COVID-19 guidelines, and the second will occur on May 2, 2022.

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Universal Studios Hollywood will reopen on Friday, April 16. Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 8, the park announced today. There will be a special park preview for annual and season pass members starting on Thursday, April 15.

LOS ANGELES -- Whoopi Goldberg, Andra Day and Zendaya will be among the honorees at this year's Essence Black Women in Hollywood event, which will be livestreamed during Oscars week for the first time this year.Essence on Tuesday announced the honorees for the 14th annual ceremony on April 22.In addition to the Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar- and Tony-winner Goldberg and “Euphoria” star Zendaya, they include actor, singer and songwriter Cynthia Erivo and actor Michaela Coel.Day, who is up for an Oscar a

After his thrilling performance as Rick Dalton's (Leonardo DiCaprio) stuntman Cliff Booth in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Brad Pitt is taking his Oscar-winning act to heart by tackling in doing a majority of his own stunt work. In a recent interview with Vulture, Greg Rementer, the second-unit director and stunt coordinator on Brad's next outing Bullet Train spoke about the 57-year-old actor's dedication.Greg revealed, "Brad did 95 percent of his physical stunts — the fighting.

It’s been over a week since the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were unveiled. The Academy has revealed the ceremony will take place at both Union Station in Los Angeles and the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

It’s been over a week since the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were unveiled. The Academy has revealed the ceremony will take place at both Union Station in Los Angeles and the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

The good news is the Oscars are charging forward with plans for the big show on Sunday, April 25. The bad news is more than a few nominees may not be there.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are hiring a lot of new people for their Archewell Foundation.

A post shared by Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (@krispykreme)In a press release, Krispy Kreme also said it plans to support health care workers and volunteers who are administering vaccines by delivering free doughnuts to vaccination centers across the country in the coming weeks.

Australian comedian Rebel Wilson used to live with Matt Lucas.The blonde bombshell shared a home with the Little Britain star for years, as they are very close mates. Speaking of the experience Matt told BBC: “We lived together for three years, had the best time and a great friendship has come out of it.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK's daily newsletter.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentSome pundits worry that the Oscar ceremony won’t feel like the real thing, because the late date (April 25) is disorienting and because the show will be divided between two venues, L.A.’s Union Station and the traditional Dolby Theatre. In truth, a fluid date and multiple locations go back to Oscar’s earliest days.The first televised ceremony in 1953 had cameras in both Hollywood and New York, a tactic that continued through 1957.

Oscars have reportedly been told appearing at the ceremony via Zoom is not an option. The 93rd Academy Awards are set to take place next month, with an in-person event at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.