Coronavirus: Oscars 2021 Postponed

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers of Oscars annual events have announced that it will now hold April 25, 2021.

AllNews reports that the annual ceremony was initially scheduled to hold on February 28.

However, the organisers, in a statement signed by President David Rubin and Chief Executive Dawn Hudson, extended eligibility window beyond December 31, 2020, to the end of February 2021.

The statement read: “Extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalised for something beyond anyone’s control,” said in a statement.

“The production shutdown meant that many filmmakers feared their movies would not be finished by the usual year-end Oscar eligibility deadline.

“Dozens of other movie releases have been moved to 2021.

“It was only the fourth time in the 93-year history of the Academy Awards that the date has been changed; in 1938, due to floods in Los Angeles, in 1968 because of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1981 after the attempted assassination of then-President Ronald Reagan.”