Oscar show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh this morning spelled out how Covid protocols would be integrated into the April 25th broadcast, and assured they are taking every measure to make sure all nominees and participants are safe throughout the three hour ceremony.
Certainly with Soderbergh and Sher having also produced the prescient 2011 film, Contagion, they would seem to have a leg up on how to do it for the Academy Awards as well.“We’ve had a lot of practice.
This industry was at the forefront of creating protocol to get people back to work safely. It started with The Safe Way Forward last June and then was formalized in a negotiation with the Producers in September.
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