It’s official! The 2021 Oscars have been set, but not for the original date of February 28.
On Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the 93rd Academy Awards has been postponed by two months to April 25, 2021.
“For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times. They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control,” Academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement.
The Academy also announced that the Governors Awards gala, which takes place in the fall, has been pushed back to a later date. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been pushed to April to coincide with the Oscars.
Due to the coronavirus, they’ve extended release date eligibility rules so a feature film must now be released between January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021. The submission deadline for specialty categories is December 1, 2020, and for general categories to January 15, 2021.
The format for the Oscars has yet to be decided. BAFTA also moved the dates of the 2021 Film Awards to April 11, two weeks before the Oscars. So far a final decision for a date for the Golden Globes hasn’t been made.
