DEAN TREML | AFP | Getty PicturesThe Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences introduced Thursday that it plans to delay subsequent yr's Oscars
DEAN TREML | AFP | Getty Pictures
The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences introduced Thursday that it plans to delay subsequent yr’s Oscars ceremony by a month to March 27, 2022. The present was initially set to happen on Feb. 27, 2022.
With a view to be eligible for the awards, movies should be launched between March and December of this yr. This narrows the eligibility window for movies to 10 months, in contrast to the standard 12 months of eligibility.
This comes after the academy was compelled to delay its 2021 awards present from February to April as a result of coronavirus pandemic. The academy had additionally delayed the window of eligibility for this yr’s award present to Feb. 28. That call allowed films reminiscent of “America vs. Billie Vacation” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” to be thought of for this yr’s awards.
The academy’s board voted on Wednesday to approve an exception made for this yr’s award season concerning film eligibility to use for the 2022 awards as nicely. This determination will enable movies that have been purported to be launched in theaters, however have been as an alternative launched for on-demand residence viewing due to coronavirus-related theater closures to be eligible for an Academy Award.
Below regular circumstances, the academy requires movies to run in a industrial theater in one in every of six qualifying cities thrice a day for not less than seven consecutive days. One of many screenings is required to be between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m on every of these days. The cities are Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay Space, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta.
This exception additionally consists of drive-in theaters, the place the movie should be proven not less than as soon as a day for seven consecutive days.
The movie shouldn’t be required to be out there on the Academy Screening Room’s member-only streaming web site as per normal guidelines. However, it should observe all different eligibility necessities within the academy’s rule ebook.
The nominees for subsequent yr’s present can be introduced on Feb. 8, 2022.
Throughout this yr’s Oscars, the highest prize went to “Nomadland.” Its director, Chloe Zhao and main actress, Frances McDormand, additionally took residence trophies. However rankings for the present, which aired on ABC, fell to all-time lows. By delaying the present till late March, the ceremony will keep away from different prime viewers attracts just like the Winter Olympics and the Nationwide Soccer League’s Tremendous Bowl, which each happen in early to mid-February 2022.
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