The Oscar nominations are being pushed again virtually per week from their unique date amid the continuing California wildfires. Nominations will now be introduced on Jan. 23, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences mentioned Monday.
“We are all devastated by the impact of the fires and the profound losses experienced by so many in our community,” Academy CEO Invoice Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang mentioned in a joint assertion. “The Academy has always been a unifying force within the film industry, and we are committed to standing together in the face of hardship.”
With fires nonetheless energetic within the Los Angeles space, the movie academy additionally prolonged the nominations voting interval for its members by way of Friday. Initially, nominations have been to be introduced that morning.
The group that places on the Oscars has additionally made the choice to cancel its annual nominees luncheon, an untelevised occasion greatest recognized for the “class photos” it produces yearly. The Scientific and Technical Awards, beforehand set for Feb. 18, might be rescheduled later.
The 97th Oscars will nonetheless occur on March 2, on the Dolby Theatre, with a stay tv broadcast on ABC starting at 7 p.m. ET and a stay stream on Hulu.
Oscar nominations have been postponed in 2021 throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ceremony itself was additionally delayed, which had occurred a number of instances earlier than: The ceremony was pushed again per week due to disastrous flooding in Los Angeles in 1938.
In 1968, it was delayed two days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And in 1981, it was delay for twenty-four hours after President Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington D.C.
The 1981 choice was made 4 hours earlier than the published was scheduled to start.
