Oscar Attendees Will Not Wear Face Masks During Telecast (EXCLUSIVE)

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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe producers of this year’s International Feature Film Oscar winner “Another Round” and Berlin Silver Bear winner “Natural Light” have been selected for European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move program, which promotes promising producers and fosters international co-productions. The 20 participants for the program, which runs online from May 17-21, will be presenting their latest projects in speed meetings and during roundtable sessions.

Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV has unveiled a sizeable development slate with projects from the likes of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and CSI: New York star Melina Kanakaredes.

Pairing a purple Dolce & Gabbana gown with a dramatic bob and baby bangs, Halle Berry had everyone talking, and apparently fooled at the 2021 Oscars.

Former Coronation Street star Matthew Marsden has come under fire for urging people to ditch face masks and stop getting Covid tests.The 48-year-old has made his views on the pandemic evident with a series of Twitter posts, in which he also appeared to mock the NHS and encouraged his followers to refuse the coronavirus vaccine.

Michael B. Jordan is speaking out in response to his late co-star Chadwick Boseman losing the Best Actor at the Oscars this past weekend.

Most of this year’s Oscars moments went viral for the wrong reasons, but at least the people sharing them knew what awkwardness they were witnessing! (Ugh, that In Memoriam…)

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC’s “Tonight Show” will try a new way to break out of TV’s late-night pack.The Jimmy Fallon-led program is launching a new six-episode miniseries that chronicles how the show maneuvered during the coronavirus pandemic, moving to “at home” broadcasts that featured the host and his family, and its eventual return to NBC’s TV studios with fewer bells and whistles.

The tradition of featuring the Academy Award winner for Best Director on Variety‘s post-Oscars cover continues with “Nomadland”‘s Chloe Zhao. On the morning after her historic award win that saw her become only the second woman to win the directing honour and the first woman of colour to do so, Zhao tells Variety all about the honour and “Nomadland”‘s Best Picture win.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentDirector-producer David Beriáin, one of the key figures on Spain’s new documentary scene, was killed on Monday while making a anti-poaching documentary in Burkina Faso.Beriain, accompanied by cameraman Roberto Fraile, was traveling in a convoy near the Arli National Park when it was attacked by armed men who arrived on two trucks and a dozen motorbikes, according to El País.The Spanish newspaper added that Beriáin and Fraile had got out of one of

When Daniel Kaluuya said he was «going up» after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at Sunday's Academy Awards for his performance in , he meant it.«I'm so happy to be alive, so I'm going to celebrate that tonight,» he said during his acceptance speech. «I'm going to get back to work Tuesday morning, because tonight I'm going up.

No thanks to the pandemic, it was a longer Oscar season than originally planned. Even though the Oscar ceremony was late this year, Searchlight fired off its campaign for Nomadland at the traditional starting gun point of early September with the multi-festival debut of Nomadland at Venice, TIFF and Telluride-sponsored drive-in at the Pasadena Rose Bowl.

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One of the major changes made to the pandemic-impacted 2021 Academy Awards was pre-recording all Original Song nominees and moving them to the 90-minute official pre-show, Oscars: Into the Spotlight on ABC.

No matter which film takes home Best Picture Sunday night, that title will be the lowest grossing ever in Oscar history.

Those attending the 93rd Academy Awards will not be required to don face coverings during the telecast on April 25.