Planning is already underway for the 94th Oscars, which shall be held on March 27, 2022, the movie academy and ABC stated on Thursday.
After a 12 months of disruption, innovation and catastrophically low scores, the Academy Awards are getting again to enterprise as common. The present will return to the Dolby Theatre for its ABC broadcast and the eligibility window will as soon as once more shut on the finish of the calendar 12 months.
This previous 12 months, the academy prolonged the eligibility window into February and cancelled non-televised occasions just like the Governors Awards and the Nominees Luncheon due to the pandemic. All these trimmings at the moment are again on the schedule, with the Governors Awards set for January 15 and the luncheon to be held on March 7. Nominations shall be introduced on February 8.
The academy stated, nevertheless, that dates stay topic to alter. The organisation can also be acknowledging that the film enterprise remains to be being impacted by the pandemic and are extending the streaming eligibility caveat they adopted final 12 months into the 2021 awards season. That implies that movies don’t essentially must have a theatrical run to qualify and may debut on streaming or video on demand companies.
The tip of March broadcast date is way later than common for Hollywood’s greatest awards present. Initially the 94th version was set to air on February 27, however that month can also be crowded with main reside occasions, together with the 2022 Olympics and the Tremendous Bowl.
The viewers for the 93rd Oscars, which was held at Los Angeles’ Union Station in late April, was lower than half of its earlier low, with solely 9.85 million viewers tuning in to observe Nomadland win finest image. It was par for the course for a pandemic awards present: Each the Golden Globes (6.9 million viewers) and Grammy Awards (9.2 million) had report low audiences as nicely.
And subsequent 12 months shall be completely different with out the Golden Globes, which typically airs in early January, stealing a few of the Oscars thunder. NBC stated earlier this 12 months that it will not air the Golden Globes in 2022 amid controversies and requires reform throughout the Hollywood International Press Affiliation, the organisation that places it on.
