The Academy Awards are one month away, and the show’s details have been drip-drip as the Tu Awards presents various challenges for the show and ratings. In a letter to this year’s Oscar nominees, the show’s creators, Amy nominee Jesse Collins (“Zobumafu”), scissor nominees Stacey Sher (“Jango Unchained” and “Erin Brockovich”) and Oscar winner Steven Soderberg (Best Director for 2000 Traffic) ) Announced that there would be no zoom option for artists who choose not to be present “due to scheduled or constant discomfort about travel”.
The producers said that taking the flawless notes of Golden Globes and Emmys accepting their awards to the winners through Zoom, “We are making a very important preparation to provide a safe and enjoyable evening to you personally, as well as to millions of people. Of movie fans around the world, and we think the virtual thing will lessen that effort. “
The trio also noted the need to keep the speeches short, so the show did not run “too long” and encouraged the final winners to “read the room” and “tell the story.”
The experimental aspects of the show were also shared and described in the email, which described the gathering as “an intimate, subjective event” to be held at Union Station in Los Angeles, with additional show elements going live from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. . With a hefty emphasis on safety, the screw will treat the show as an active movie set, with “specially designed test cadence” to ensure one-minute results, including a CO-site covid security team with PCR testing capabilities. .
Additional notifications will be sent to nominees traveling directly from outside Los Angeles.
Emphasizing the message that “the story does matter”, the producers of the telecast are requesting that every nominee be interviewed soon so that equality of all is achieved. The aim is to “highlight the connections between all of us who work in movies and show that the process is uniquely intimate, collaborative and entertaining.” No details were shared about who will interview him or when he will run during the show.
There will also be a pre-show reunion with nominees and guests for the previous 90 minutes in the Union Station courtyard. Only guests and presenters will participate in the live telecast.
It also included details about the evening’s dress code, which is intended to be an “inspiring and inspiring blend, which literally means” formal formal cool if you want to go there, but not really casual. In other words, there will be no Larry McCommertry (Scroke-winning screenplay for “Brokeback Mountain”) in gin moments.
The nominations announced on March 15 were the most diverse and inclusive in its 93-year history. Two female filmmakers, Chloe Zoe of “Nomadland” and Emerald Fennell of “Promising Young Woman” were nominated for Best Director, their films receiving Best Picture nominations. Nine of the 20 acting slots were recognized by the POC, including Reese Witherspoon (“Sound of Metal”), the late Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis (“Ma Reini’s Black Bottom”), Steven Yen and Yuh-Jung Yoon (“Minari”). , Andrea Day (“United States v. Billy Holiday”), Leslie Odam Jr. (“One Night in Miami”) and Daniel Kaluua and Lecith Stanfield (“Judas and the Black Messiah”).
Sc Scar will air on ABC on Sunday, April 25th.
Academy Award Predictions (All Categories)
