Oscars Will Limit Ceremony to Presenters, Nominees and Their Guests (EXCLUSIVE)

Clayton Davis Searchlight Pictures’ “Nomadland” has shown it has the ability to pass one of the thorniest tests in the Oscar season canon: the preferential ballot. That’s the method used for selecting a winner at the Producers Guild Awards, which is also used by the Academy Awards for choosing its top prize.

2021 Oscars, and the race is heating up.The Producers Guild just named “Nomadland” best picture of the year, meaning it’s a shoo-in for the top Oscar. And the Screen Actors Guild Awards will air Sunday and cement the front-runners in the four acting categories.

Clayton Davis “Promising Young Woman” producers Margot Robbie and Josey McNamara believe that writer and director Emerald Fennell “can do it all.”“The great thing about Emerald as a filmmaker [is] from that very first moment she pitched us when she delivered the script, she knew the movie in her head instantly,” McNamara tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

Paul and Linda McCartney‘s 1971 album ‘RAM’ is set to be reissued later this year to celebrate its 50th anniversary.Originally released in May 1971, ‘RAM’ served as the follow-up to the Beatle‘s 1970 debut solo album ‘McCartney’.

Clayton Davis Listen, it’s time for all the awards gurus, publicists and industry people to take a breath.For a little over a year, the four walls surrounding us, the multiple Zoom boxes in front of us and the spewing of hatred on our television screens have divided us. The past 15 months of awards season speculations and hot takes have clearly taken their toll on the entertainment professionals as the upcoming Academy Awards draw near.

Delroy Lindo, people! — and could wonder why, in a record year for nonwhite acting nominees, only one of the eight Best Picture nominees, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” told a story with Black protagonists.

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.

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.

Clayton Davis The Academy Awards are over a month away, and the show’s details have been a drip-drip as the season presents various challenges for award shows and ratings.

Academy Awards will be quite a bit different this year.

Also Read: Oscar Nominations Analysis: 'Nomadland' Remains on Top in a Difficult and Confusing YearThe email did not specify how the show’s two venues, the Dolby Theatre and Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, would be used on the show.

have,” she told TheWrap with a laugh. “It’s been life-changing.”Also Read: Oscars Song Contenders on 'Common Thread' Through Their Songs: 'A Need to Be Heard and Seen' (Video)The 23-year-old singer and songwriter said she didn’t hesitate when she was approached by the filmmakers of “Judas” to write and perform a song for their film about the FBI campaign to target the Black Panther Party and its chairman, Fred Hampton, in late 1960s Chicago.

History was made across the board with the 93rd Oscar nominations. Steven Yeun became the first Asian-American nominated for Best Actor.

One Night in Miami, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman. Best Actor nominations include Chadwick Boseman, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins, while Best Actress nominees include Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Viola Davis, Frances McDormand and Andra Day.

Clayton Davis The BAFTA nominations were announced, throwing more unexpected turns in this overstretched awards season. What does it all mean for the Oscars?With the British Academy adopting juries for acting and directing, that’s where the nominees’ makeup was most different.

Clayton Davis Oscar voting is kicking off, and 366 films are vying for the Academy’s attention for best picture, in addition to their selections in their respective branches. One important note to Academy members: Fill out your ballots in full.Every Academy member votes for best picture, outside of their respective branch association.

Clayton Davis Oscar ballots will be in the hands of AMPAS voters on March 5, and they’ll have until March 10 to turn them in. All the predicting, theorizing and prognosticating have led to this crucial six-day period when the nearly 10,000 Academy members make their choices among the year’s achievements.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.