After a year when
everything was weird and different, it seems only fitting that the Academy Award are going to be weird and different. While the 2020 ceremony was one of the last normal big events before pandemic reality set in, the 2021 awards will represent an expanded eligibility window, featuring movies that debuted exclusively online, and will be taking place at two different venues simultaneously.
That doesn t mean that the Oscars aren t still fundamentally the Oscars, and as such it s possible to predict with some degree of confidence what s going to shake out (a fascinating, welcome outlier like last year s Best Picture win for
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The Oscars
. The delay to next Sunday
was intended to
maximise the number of films submitted after a year of closed cinemas and increase the chances of a “normal” ceremony.
It has been announced that the event, which will take place at Los Angeles s cavernous Union Station, will feel more like a movie than a TV show. It will feature a much smaller red carpet and a downsized guest list.
However, despite efforts to make it happen, this year’s awards seem destined to be forever subtitled “the pandemic Oscars” after cinema as we know it ceased to exist.
been some great films released – we just haven’t had to go as far to watch them.
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For being a year without movies, 2020 gave us a lot of great movies. Thanks to streaming services, mid-budget character-driven dramas have dominated the conversation this past year with very little CGI spectacles taking the spotlight. It was also interesting to see all the smaller independent films released earlier in the year that remained part of the discussion. This combination made the possibilities of the 2021 awards season unpredictable and exciting.
And then most of the Oscar nominations went to the same middlebrow biopics and performance-heavy melodramas that always get rewarded by the Academy. There were a few surprises but the Oscars this year were most surprising in how unsurprising they were. That s not to say it s all bad. For instance, for the first time the