Coronavirus films that have not been released this year will also be nominated for Oscars.
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The Oscars, the world’s most prestigious film awards company, have announced that coronavirus films that have not been released this year will also be nominated for Oscars. According to David Ribbon, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Don Hudson, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Oscar-winning committee, for the first time in history this year, Will be nominated for the award, which could not be released in cinemas due to the Corona epidemic. Oscar nominations usually only nominate films for certain categories that have been shown in any cinema in Los Angeles, California for at least a week. However, this condition does not apply to every film category, but this time due to the coronavirus, while Los Angeles cinema halls are closed, cinemas around the world, including the United States, have been temporarily closed. Dozens of films have also been temporarily suspended due to the temporary closure of cinema halls or such films have been released on online platforms, including web streaming websites.
There were several well-known and big-name films that could not be released due to the coronavirus, and film circles were disappointed that such films were not nominated for the highest award. However, the Oscar Academy has now announced a temporary change in its rules to nominate films that could not be released in cinema halls. According to the news agency Reuters, the president and CEO of the Academy, which gave the Oscar awards, clarified that the change in the rules of the film awards is temporary and will be applicable only this year. Under the new rules, every film made this year will also be nominated for an Oscar, the screening of which was stopped due to coronavirus. At the same time, the academy officials announced that this time awards will not be given for two categories.
According to the academy, awards will not be given in the categories of sound mixing and sound editing at the 2021 Oscars. However, academy officials did not specify whether Corona could delay the Oscars. The Oscars are usually held in the last week of February and now the 93rd Oscars will be held in February 2021 and nominations for the award will begin in December 2020. The Oscars are the world’s largest and most prestigious film awards, with awards in the foreign language category at the festival, and Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy winning the award twice. Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is Pakistan’s first and so far only filmmaker to have won an Oscar, while no Indian filmmaker or actor has won the award so far.
