Officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences are convinced that the 93rd annual prizegiving will go on as planned as changes have been done in the voting rules.
- April 29, 2020
AceShowbiz - The 2021 Oscars are still being scheduled for February, despite Hollywood's coronavirus shutdown - but many of the voting rules are changing.
Officials at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have approved changes for the 93rd annual prizegiving, but they're convinced the show will go on, as planned, on 27 February.
The changes include lifting restrictions on eligibility requirements for films debuting on streaming websites like Netflix and Hulu and video-on-demand platforms, increasing the amount of people who can vote for the best international films, and combining the awards for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.
The eligibility changes will benefit films like "Trolls World Tour", Judd Apatow's "The King of Staten Island", and "Military Wives", which all switched from theatrical to video-on-demand releases as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.
