Oscars Tap Familiar Director for COVID-Altered Telecast

their COVID vaccination cards. All COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the US, including the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson shots, have been shown to be highly effective at preventing COVID-19 infections, and even more effective at preventing deaths from the illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Oscars 2021, and that’s due primarily to the pandemic.“The rising dominance of the streaming services has taken the gloss off the Oscars for me,” he said. “You just don’t get the same warm fuzzy feeling from when you recognize a movie from the silver screen.”Whether you watch out of love, because you love to hate or have given up like Bradley, awards shows have suffered since the coronavirus shuttered theaters and shut down live performances.

Naman Ramachandran Top Bollywood star Akshay Kumar has been hospitalized and his much awaited blockbuster “Sooryavanshi” has been postponed as COVID-19 rampages across Mumbai, capital of the Hindi-language film industry.Kumar was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Sunday and he was hospitalized on Monday.

On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released new data on Covid-19, reporting 40 new deaths and 839 new positive cases.

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.

President Joe Biden said that 90% of the U.S. will be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine within three weeks, as he also warned of rising cases.

After a short hiatus caused by the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s “March Madness,” the entrepreneurs and sharks are back on top of the Friday evening demos.

stream for free via Field of Vision) was nominated on March 15 for the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar.

EXCLUSIVE: David Leitch and Kelly McCormick and their 87North production label tomorrow launch their latest high octane action film. The Ilya Naishuler-directed thriller Nobody is the attempt by Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk to make the action hero done by actors from Liam Neeson to Keanu Reeves.

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.

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.

Gallery: Everything you missed from the Golden Globes 2021 (BANG Showbiz)And like many women of her generation, Amanda remembers falling for ‘Titanic’ actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She said: “I was born in 85, so my childhood movie crush was Leo, obviously.

If you’re a nominee for the 93rd Academy Awards and planning on accepting your Oscar in person the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a message for you: get your a** to Union Station. In a correspondence to nominees today, the Academy revealed that there will be no zoom acceptance speeches for this year’s pandemic delayed Oscars.

NEW YORK -- A night after winning the top Grammy Award for songwriting, R&B singer H.E.R. and her collaborators Tiara Thomas and D'Mile have become Oscar-nominated songwriters.H.E.R.'s protest anthem “I Can't Breathe" won song of the year at Sunday's Grammys, and another soulful song with poignant lyrics by the singer — “Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah” — is nominated for best original song at the 2021 Academy Awards.“I’m feeling crazy man," H.E.R.

Oscar’s nominations were announced Monday and it was revealed that a couple of records were set for women. First, in total, 70 women scored nods for 76 different nominations, which was a record for the Academy.