The Oscars 2021 ceremony is scheduled to take place at the end of April 2021. The producers have now announced on Thursday, March 18, 2021, that the Academy Awards for this year will not have a virtual or Zoom ceremony, but an in-person gathering.
As reported by Just Jared, the email also issues a note on dress code for Oscars 2021. The attendees have been informed that “Inspirational and Aspirational” is the theme for Oscars dress code.
Among other important details revealed by the producers was that there will be two venues for the show, one at the Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles and the traditional home of the Academy Awards, the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Everyone will be tested, and there will be a COVID-19 safety team on site throughout the evening on April 25.
“There will not be an option to Zoom in for the show,” producers Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher said in a note to the more than 200 nominees this year.
The 93rd Academy Awards are set to take place at an in-person event at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles and there will be some live elements from the ceremony’s usual home at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
The nominations of the Oscars 2021 were announced on March 15, 2021, by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas and were led by the 1930s based Hollywood drama Mank, which got nominated for a total of 10 awards.
Alongside, the other titles to be nominated were The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, the Korean-language drama Minari, Nomadland, #MeToo revenge tale Promising Young Woman, Amazon Studio deaf drama Sound of Metal and 1960s Vietnam War courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7.
