An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic.The 93rd Academy Awards will begin at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC. There will be no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees attending the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union Station this year’s hub for a show usually broadcast from the Dolby Theatre. In contrast with the largely virtual Golden Globes, Zoom boxes have been closed out though numerous international hubs and satellite feeds will connect nominees unable to travel.
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At the end of the strangest, rockiest awards season ever, it’s no surprise that the 93rd Academy Awards will be a very different Oscars show. The ceremony is (mostly) taking place in a train station, downtown Los Angeles’ Union Station, instead of a theater; awards will be given out in front of the smallest in-person audience in about 90 years; the red carpet will be scaled back dramatically; and COVID-19 protocols will have an impact on just about everything that happens.
An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night with a telecast retooled for the pandemic
This year, the series will adapt to the demands of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic for a socially distanced show
To underscore the changes due to the pandemic, there will be no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees attending the ceremony at Los Angeles Union Station
But attendees will have to wear masks when not on stage
And guests - Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Zendaya have been secured - are not able to bring guests
The awards show will be very different as it will be a socially distanced event held not in Hollywood but in downtown Los Angeles at Union Station with only 170 people and not the usual 3,000.
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