Next year’s Oscars will keep a later spring ceremony date and the pandemic qualifying rules of this past year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the Oscars 2022 rules, which will allow streaming movies to qualify for Best Picture, indicating that it might be the start of permanent changes that will expand eligibility of films who hope to qualify for the awards. Variety reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is pushing back the ceremony for the 94th Academy Awards from its originally scheduled airdate of Feburary 27 to March 27, 2022, keeping the ceremony in the spring after this year’s Oscars were held in April.