It’s been more than a month since the Academy Awards and the details of the program have been a drop-drop as the season presents different challenges for awards and ratings. In a letter to this year’s Oscar nominees, Emmy producers Jesse Collins (“Zoboomafoo”), Oscar nominee Stacey Sher (“Django Unchained” and “Erin Brockovich”) and Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh ( best director for 2000’s “Traffic”) Announced that there will be no Zoom option for the artists who choose not to attend, either due to scheduling or constant travel turmoil. ”
The producers take impeccable notes from the Golden Globes and Emmys that winners have received to receive their awards, saying: ‘We will go to great lengths to provide a safe and enjoyable evening for you all personally, as well as for all the millions of movie fans around the world, and we feel that the virtual thing will diminish those efforts. ”
The trio also made notes on how to keep speeches short so that the program does not last ‘too long’ and encourages the eventual winners to ‘read the room’ and ‘tell a story’.
The practical aspects of the show were also shared and described in the email, which characterizes the event as an ‘intimate, personal event’ that will take place at Union Station in Los Angeles, with additional performance elements coming directly from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood takes place. . With a strong emphasis on safety, the Oscars will view the program as an active film series, with ‘specifically designed test shadows’ to ensure the best results, including an on-site COVID safety team with PCR test features.
Additional instructions will be sent directly to candidates traveling from outside Los Angeles.
The producers of the television program emphasize the message that ‘stories matter’, and ask that each candidate be briefly interviewed to ensure that everyone is equally prominent. The aim is to highlight the connection between ‘all of us who work in the movies and to show that the process is uniquely intimate, collaborative and enjoyable’. No details were shared about who would interview them or when it would take place during the program.
A meeting with nominees and guests will also be held in the Union Station Courtyard during the preceding 90 minutes. Only guests and presenters will attend the live broadcast.
The information about the attire of the evening, which is a fusion of inspiration and aspiration, which in real words means ‘formal, is cool if you want to go there, but it’s not comfortable’. In other words, there will be no Larry McMurtry (Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Brokeback Mountain”) Jean moments.
The nominations announced on March 15 were the most diverse and inclusive field in 93-year history. Two female filmmakers, Chloé Zhao from “Nomadland” and Emerald Fennell from “Promising Young Woman”, were nominated for best director, with their films receiving the best nominations for the film. Nine of the 20 stage slots were recognized by POC, including Riz Ahmed (‘Sound of Metal’), the late Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis (‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’), Steven Yeun and Yuh-Jung Youn (‘Minari’), Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”), Leslie Odom Jr (“One Night in Miami”) and Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield (“Judas and the Black Messiah”).
The Oscars will be broadcast on ABC on Sunday, April 25th.
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