With nominations set and just over a month until showtime, details are trickling out about the 93rd Oscars and neither sweatshirts nor zoom made the cut.
鈥淥ur plan is that this year鈥檚 Oscars will look like a movie, not a television show,鈥� said show producers Jesse Collins, Stacy Sher and Steven Soderbergh in a statement Friday. They鈥檝e enlisted Emmy and Tony Award winning director Glenn Weiss to direct the live broadcast on April 25.
Although considerably scaled down from a normal year, the producers have said they are committed to holding an in-person event at Los Angeles鈥� Union Station for nominees, presenters and limited guests. There will also be a live component at the Dolby Theatre, which has been home to the Academy Awards since 2001.
But unlike the Golden Globes, which combined in-person and Zoom elements in its bi-coastal broadcast, the Oscars are not making a virtual element possible for nominees who either can鈥檛 or don鈥檛 feel comfortable attending. The producers said they plan to treat the event like an active movie set with on-site COVID safety teams and testing protocols.
And, yes, they expect attendees to dress up.
鈥淲e鈥檙e aiming for a fusion of Inspirational and Aspirational, which in actual words means formal is totally cool if you want to go there, but casual is really not,鈥� producers said.
The 93rd Oscars will be broadcast live on ABC on April 25 starting at 8 p.m. ET.
Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
