Academy Awards like no other. Hotly tipped titles, like Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, have moved to next year and will be out of the running.After years of bickering about whether films produced by streaming services should be eligible for Oscars (they aren’t unless released in cinemas first), Covid-specific rules mean Netflix and Amazon look set to dominate the awards.
Contenders, like Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy or Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 which debuted online in the pandemic, will now be eligible.Even the ceremony will look different.
The Academy hopes the delay will allow it to physically take place with, presumably, social-distancing modifications but, like the Emmys and Grammys already this year, it might be.
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