The coronavirus pandemic has already halted the 2021 Academy Awards.
Due to COVID-19, film eligibility deadlines have been extended to February 28 and the award ceremony will take place on April 15, 2021. This is just the fourth time in the award's history that it has been postponed.
“For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times. They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control,” Academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement. “This coming Oscars and the opening of our new museum will mark an historic moment, gathering movie fans around the world to unite through cinema.”
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