Grab your calendar since the 2021 Oscars just obtained a model new date.
As has been typically the case in recent many years, the future Academy Awards ended up scheduled for early 2021—February 28, to be actual. Nevertheless, as the coronavirus pandemic has ongoing as a result of the to start with 50 percent of this calendar year, the Academy of Movement Photo Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that the following ceremony has been rescheduled to April 25, 2021, the most current date the Academy Awards have at any time been held given that it was televised. The previous time the Oscars took put in April was 32 many years in the past in 1988.
In addition to the precise ceremony date, the Academy has also pushed back again various other connected aspects, such as the eligibility time period. Now, any feature movies that have been launched in between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, 2021 are suitable for Academy Awards thought. The submission deadline for specialty groups, this sort of as Animated Characteristic Movie and Documentary Function, is Dec. 1, whilst the submission deadline for general entry types, like Greatest Photo and First Track, is Jan. 15, 2021.
Nominations for the 2021 Oscars will then be declared on March 15, 2021. And, just days soon after the ceremony takes location within the Dolby Theater in Hollywood and airs on ABC, the Academy Museum of Motion Pics will open on April 30, 2021 as an alternative of the beforehand scheduled Dec. 14 day.
The move comes months following the pandemic brought production on upcoming jobs around the planet to a screeching halt and shuttered film theaters all around the state.
