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TheWrap magazine: The COVID-19 pandemic and the recognition of systemic racism transformed this awards season into a marathon like no other By Steve Pond | April 14, 2021 @ 10:32 AM Last Updated: April 14, 2021 @ 12:54 PM
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A version of this story first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
The Oscars have been delayed and disrupted before, but there has never been an awards season like the one that will end on April 25 at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Starting soon after last year’s Oscars on Feb. 9, 2020, the world changed, first with a global pandemic and then with a long-delayed reckoning with institutional racism.
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Has a Best Picture race ever felt like
such a done deal? Even in years where there s been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesn t seem to be the case this year, where
Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say,
Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!
Chloé Zhao s resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venice s Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International Film Festival s People s Choice Award, the latter heralding it as one to watch come awards season. Then
Kazuo Ishiguro (Jonathan Brady/PA)
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Sandi Toksvig, David Nicholls, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse will be among the high-profile figures marking World Book Night.
The event will celebrate its tenth anniversary on April 23 with a number of online activities under the theme Books To Make You Smile, in response to the impact Covid-19 has had on mental health.
Toksvig will host a livestreamed event in partnership with The British Library featuring best-selling authors Nicholls and Bolu Babalola, as well as World Book Night founder Jamie Byng.
Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Kate Mosse on World Book Night eveningexpress.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eveningexpress.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.