Oscars Producers Say No Zooms, No Jeans at This Year’s Ceremony

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

Academy Awards has relaxed its decision that nominees must attend in-person this year or not at all.Following an outcry that the move would inhibit dozens of overseas actors, crew members and filmmakers amid a pandemic, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) which organises the Oscars appears to have now ruled that virtual appearances will be allowed.All nominees have been directly contacted and invited to participate in a Zoom “conversation with show producers” Steven

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

Many Americans, in particular, are excited about a chance to return closer to normal with the widespread distribution of vaccines over the past few months and moving forward. It appears the producers of the 93rd Academy Awards were in that boat.

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Oscars telecast might not want to get too comfortable when they take their seats at Union Station.That’s because the show’s producers are weighing a plan that would rotate nominees and presenters in and out of the area where the awards are being handed out as a COVID precaution. Cleaning crews will then sanitize the area before the next batch of nominees and presenters take their seats.

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2021 Oscars are tweaking the awards show in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic — but not in a way some would prefer.Academy Awards producers are saying “no way” to using Zoom (and wearing jeans) for the ceremony next month.

Oscars telecast.Several nominees, as well as studio executives, awards strategists and personal publicists have shared their frustration with the decision made by the Oscar telecast producers.“There’s been no clarity,” one studio executive told Variety.

Questlove is bringing his talent and expertise to the 2021 Oscars! Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, who are producing the 93rd Oscars, announced on Wednesday that the 50-year-old founding member of The Roots will serve as the musical director for this year's show.Questlove (real name: Ahmir Khalib Thompson) is a member of the Academy and has previously performed at the Oscars.

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2021 Oscars will be taking place on Sunday, April 25, after a months-long delay caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. While the show will be a little harder to pull off this year, ET has learned that the Academy plans to host an intimate and Zoom-free Oscars ceremony.Despite all the challenges, there are a number of great actresses, actors and movies vying for films highest honor this year, including,, and, which are all up for Best Picture.

Clayton Davis Television and live events veteran Glenn Weiss will return to direct the 93rd Academy Awards.“Our plan is that this year’s Oscars will look like a movie, not a television show, and Glenn has embraced this approach and come up with ideas of his own on how to achieve this.

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Oscars 2021 is all set to be an in-person event and according to some new guidelines revealed by the producers of the show, the winners will not have an option to virtually accept their honour.  The guidelines were stated in a mail shared with the nominees.

Gallery: 'Nomadland' wins big at 2021 Golden Globes (dw. com)They said nominees and their guests would gather at a courtyard in the Union rail station, while other show elements would be held live inside the Dolby Theatre some 8 miles (12.

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,