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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed on Thursday that it prepares to postpone next year’s Oscars event by a month to March 27, 2022. The program was initially set to occur on Feb. 27, 2022.
In order to be qualified for the awards, movies should be launched in between March and December of this year. This narrows the eligibility window for movies to 10 months, unlike the typical 12 months of eligibility.
This follows the Academy was required to postpone its 2021 awards reveal from February to April due to the pandemic. The Academy had actually likewise postponed the window of eligibility for this year’s award program to Feb. 28. That choice permitted motion pictures such as “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” to be thought about for this year’s awards.
The Academy’s board voted on Wednesday to authorize an exception produced this year’s award season concerning motion picture eligibility make an application for the 2022 awards also. This choice will permit movies that were expected to be launched in theaters, however were launched for on-demand house seeing since of coronavirus-related theater closures to be qualified for an Academy Award.
Under regular situations, the Academy needs movies to run in a business theater in among 6 certifying cities 3 times a day for a minimum of 7 successive days. One of the screenings is needed to be in between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m on each of those days. The cities are Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta.
This exception likewise consists of drive-in theaters, where the movie should be revealed a minimum of as soon as a day for 7 successive days.
The movie is not needed to be readily available on the Academy Screening Room’s member-only streaming website based on typical guidelines. But, it should follow all other eligibility requirements in the Academy’s guideline book.
The candidates for next year’s program will be revealed on Feb. 8, 2022.
During this year’s Oscars, the leading reward went to “Nomadland.” Its director, Chloe Zhao and leading starlet, Frances McDormand, likewise took house prizes. But scores for the program, which aired on ABC, was up to lowest levels. By postponing the program till late March, the event will prevent other leading audience draws like the winter season Olympics and the National Football League’s Super Bowl, which both occur in early to mid February 2022.
