Oscars requiring celebrities to quarantine ahead of ceremony in April

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWith just a week until the 93rd Oscars ceremony on April 25, Disney is kicking the synergy machine into high gear in order to support the telecast on ABC.The challenge is steep: As Variety recently noted, ratings for all major awards telecasts this year have been down between 50% to 60%, making a similar decline a real possibility for the Academy Awards.

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Spider-Man's Zendaya and American Horror Story star Angela Bassett have joined the "ensemble cast" of presenters for the 2021 Oscars. This year's ceremony will take place later this month, with coronavirus pandemic regulations still in place.

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Jon Burlingame There’s a two-in-five chance that an African American will walk away with the Academy Award for original score on April 25, and if so, it will be only the second time a Black composer has won in that category. That’s because two films with Black composers were nominated this year: Terence Blanchard for “Da 5 Bloods,” and Jon Batiste, one of three composers nominated for “Soul” (along with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross).

show up in person to the Hollywood event and that appearing via Zoom “will not be an option”. That caused uproar among non-Americans who did not want to fly during the pandemic.

show up in person to the Hollywood event and that appearing via Zoom “will not be an option”. That caused uproar among non-Americans who did not want to fly during the pandemic.

The Oscars are planning to add ceremony 'hubs' outside the US after banning attendance through Zoom. The 93rd Academy Awards take place on April 25 primarily from Union Station in Los Angeles, California.

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.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "No Zoom" policy for this year's Oscars ceremony is proving a headache for multiple nominees who live outside the United States and who are still under pandemic restrictions, according to Hollywood publications.

However the Academy Awards play out when they are finally distributed April 25, the 93rd Oscars is guaranteed to be one for the record books. Already, the nominations have achieved several historic firsts: Two women, Nomadland's Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman's Emerald Fennell, were nominated for director — a category that rarely sees even one female in the ranks — while nine actors of color were nominated, including the first Asian American, Minari's Steven Yeun, as best actor.

There will be no Zoom calls at the Oscars, organisers have said, telling nominees they will accept any awards won by artists who don't make it to the ceremony, while hoodies are definitely out. In a letter sent to nominees and published by US showbiz website Deadline, the show's producers said: "For those of you unable to attend because of scheduling or continued uneasiness about traveling, we want you to know there will not be an option to Zoom in for the show.