2021 Oscars undergoes major changes with on-demand movies now eligible for nomination

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Next year’s Oscars will be very different than what we’re used to. The 93rd Academy Awards will not only allow digital-only movies to be eligible for nomination for the first time, two categories are go🅠ing to be st✤reamlined into one.

As per , a recent meeting of the Academy board reached the conclusion that a movie doesn’t need to show for at least a week in a Los Angeles theater (an impossibly archaic hoop that the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Irishman recently🍎 jumped through) before being considered for an Oscar nomination – but there’s a caveat.

Any movie that still wants to draw the gaze of the Academy needs to at least have been planning to release in cinemas. Of course, with the world being as it is, many wil🍰l be considering a cinema run but will be unable to do so, meaning the likes of Trolls: World Tour, for example, would still be eligible despite not appearing in theatres.

That could also lead to small-to-medium budget movies oꦛpting to take a chance on going all-in on digital streaming, a move that would mark a huge change in how we watch movies.

On the category side of things, meanwhile, best sound editing and best sound mixing (won this year by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ford vs. Ferrari and 1917 respectively) will be brought together into one “best s🙈ound” category🔥.

The movie industry in 2021 (and beyond) may look unrecognisable, and it’s the Academy, remarkably, that are currently leading t🌜he way.

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