Academy Ramps up for Hybrid Hollywood Oscars Telecast, Limits Live Invites and Social Events Live Here 🔟 🔴► Live Here 🔟 🔴► When the Academy responded to the pandemic by pushing back the date of the 93rd Oscars by two months to April 25, 2021, Academy CEO Dawn Hudson and president David Rubin were hoping for enough time for Hollywood to emerge from the pandemic, and book some big-budget studio event movies like Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” and Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” into reopened theaters. Well, that didn’t happen. But the show must go on, and at Monday morning’s Oscar nominations announcement, which represented mostly indies and streamer fare, Rubin confirmed two Los Angeles locations for the upcoming April ceremony,
China Reportedly Tells TV Networks Not to Air Oscars Live and to Downplay Academy According to a report from Variety, the Chinese government has allegedly “told its local media channels not to transmit live coverage of the Oscars and to downplay the awards ceremony… The order reportedly came from the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party and instructed Chinese media to only report on non-controversial awards.” The alleged order follows this week’s Oscars nominations announcement, in which the Field of Vision-backed “Do Not Split” made it into the Best Documentary Short Subject category. The 35-minute non-fiction short film shows the pro-democracy struggles in Hong Kong.