We've Got Hollywood Covered A Journal of the Weirdest Awards Season Ever, From Streams to Vaccines and Everything in Between 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 Illustrated by Chris Morris 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.