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The Oscars
- The annual awards ceremony put on by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences is the undisputed king of all film industry award ceremonies.
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Historical event
- Every year for the past 92 years the greats of the acting world have gathered together to celebrate each other’s successes.
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Controversy
- At times controversial, the Oscars is easily the most buzzed about entertainment event of the year (although TV viewing figures have declined in recent years).
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Statistics
- In 2014, Twitter released statistics to show that tweets about the event that year were viewed 3.3 billion times worldwide.
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Famous selfie
- In that same year, Ellen DeGeneres tweeted a selfie with a number of famous faces and it became the most retweeted picture ever to grace the site.
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Oscars 2021
- Of course, with the global COVID-19 pandemic still at large, the Oscars ceremony is set to look a little different in 2021.
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April
- To start with, the 2021 event will take place in April rather than in February. The ceremony was presumably postponed in the hope that a physical event will be possible by April.
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Uncertainty
- However, there is still a lot of uncertainty about how the pandemic will progress and whether it will be sensible or even possible to hold a physical ceremony at all.
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Inspiration
- If the Oscars are to go online, organizers will be able to draw inspiration from a number of virtual award ceremonies, such as the Emmy Awards, that took place in 2020.
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European Film Awards
- They may also look at the possibility of a hybrid event, drawing inspiration from the European Film Awards, which took place in December 2020.
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Physical attendance
- The event was hosted from the Futurium building in Berlin, but the only people in physical attendance were the hosts.
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Virtual attendance
- The nominees attended virtually only, and the winners were congratulated online. According to Mike Downey, the chair of the European Film Academy, the event mostly ran smoothly.
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Los Angeles
- For the time being, organizers of the Oscars are aiming to hold an in-person ceremony in Los Angeles on April 25, 2021.
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Steven Soderbergh
- Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh has been appointed to “re-envision” the ceremony in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Steven Soderbergh
- The American director, who is best known for his films ‘Erin Brockovich,’ ‘Contagion,’ and ‘Traffic,’ said that he and his collaborators were “thrilled and terrified” by the challenge.
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Statement
- They gave a statement explaining that, “Because of the situation we’re all in, there’s an opportunity to focus on the movies and the people who make them in a new way.”
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High-profile event
- Whether a physical event or not, many players are hoping for a high-profile event that will give the industry the boost it needs after such a difficult year.
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Statement
- According to Mike Downey, the purpose of an awards ceremony now “is to demonstrate that cinema is still alive, and to paraphrase a quote, reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated.”
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Oscar bounce
- Many filmmakers are surely hoping for a high-profile event, since history tells us this can do wonders for ticket sales.
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'Parasite'
- According to Comscore, box-office sales for Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Parasite’ went up by 79% after its Best Picture nomination at the Oscars in 2020.
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Harsh reality
- Hosting a physical event will inevitably raise the profile of the Oscars ceremony in 2021, but even so the reality is that there won’t be so much of a buildup as normal.
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Buildup
- The traditional excitement that builds throughout January as nominees gather at parties, photo calls, and other red carpet events won’t be so tangible this year.
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Netflix
- There is one Oscars contender that stands to benefit from the pandemic, however, and that’s Netflix. With people confined to their homes, Netflix has enjoyed greater film success.
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High-profile releases
- Netflix has had a number of high-profile releases in 2020, including David Fincher’s ‘Mank’ and Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods.’
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'The Prom'
- It was also Netflix that put out the musical comedy-drama ‘The Prom,’ which, according to Meryl Streep, is “a big embrace of a film that we need at this time in the world.”
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Diversity
- In addition to the projected greater visibility for Netflix, it is hoped that the Oscars 2021 will be a more diverse ceremony than in previous years.
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Diversity
- The voting body for 2021 has 819 new members, 45% of whom are women and 36% of whom are not white. Sources: (BBC) See also: Movie stars who directed themselves all the way to the Oscars
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Oscars 2021: What might the ceremony look like?
Plans for the entertainment event of the year
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2020 left many disappointed when a number of prominent events were canceled. Although the 2020 Oscars event narrowly escaped cancellation as the awards ceremony took place just before the world went into lockdown, nothing about the 2021 event is certain yet.
Check out this gallery to find out about current plans for Oscars 2021.
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