2021 Oscars undergoes major changes with on-demand movies now eligible for nomination

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A new category has also been introduced

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Next year’s Oscars will be very different than what we’re used to. The 93rd Academy Awards will not only allow digital-only movies to be eligible for nomination for the first time, two categories are going to be streamlined into one.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, a recent meeting of the Academy board reached the conclusion that a movie doesn’t need to show for at least a week in a Los Angeles theater (an impossibly archaic hoop that the likes of The Irishman recently jumped through) before being considered for an Oscar nomination – but there’s a caveat.

On the category side of things, meanwhile, best sound editing and best sound mixing (won this year by Ford vs. Ferrari and 1917 respectively) will be brought together into one “best sound” category.

The movie industry in 2021 (and beyond) may look unrecognisable, and it’s the Academy, remarkably, that are currently leading the way.

Bradley Russell
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