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Academy Top Brass On Guiding Oscars Through Pandemic: “We’ve Done Our Best But There Are Many More Months To Come”

10.07.2020 - 19:25

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By Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film Critic “We are in Week 7 of the global pandemic and we are looking at everything in front of us, but that Oscar show is 10 months away from us now, and we can’t predict what is happening between now and February 28th,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Dawn Hudson said when I asked about a possible date change for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards, which set to air exactly 10 months from today.

There has been much online speculation about it, even as that date seems so far away. In my joint conversation with Hudson and AMPAS President David Rubin just minutes after the Academy announced changes in eligibility for 2020 film releases amid the theatrical shutdown– and addressed other