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Because of coronavirus pandemic, Oscars originally scheduled for February 28 was rescheduled to April 2021.
The event for film’s highest honours will now hold on April 25, 2021, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced in a statement.
The Academy in its statement approved by President David Rubin and Academy Chief Executive Dawn Hudson also extended the deadline by which movies must be released in order to be eligible for an Oscar nomination to Feb. 28, 2021, from Dec. 31, 2020.
The statement goes: “Extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalised for something beyond anyone’s control,” said in a statement.