SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, (THEWILL) – Due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers of the 2021 Oscars ceremony have postponed the event.
THEWILL recalls that the event was initially fixed for February 28 was shifted to April 2021. The Oscars have now chosen April 25, 2021 for the event.
President David Rubin and Academy Chief Executive, Dawn Hudson of the OSCARS, also shifted the deadline by which movies must be released in order to qualify for an Oscar nomination. The new dates are: December 31, 2020 to February 28, 2021.
The statement read: “Extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control.
“The production shutdown meant that many filmmakers feared their movies would not be finished by the usual year-end Oscar eligibility deadline.
“Dozens of other movie releases have been moved to 2021.
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“It was only the fourth time in the 93-year history of the Academy Awards that the date has been changed; in 1938, due to floods in Los Angeles, in 1968 because of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1981 after the attempted assassination of then-President Ronald Reagan.”
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