• Oscars, the rules change: films not released in the cinema will also be able to participate
  • Oscar 2020: all the winners
  • Coronavirus, postponed the Cannes Film Festival
  • Venice Biennale: postponement for Theater and Dance festivals, confirmed Cinema in September

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20 May 2020 The 93rd Oscars are scheduled for February, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering postponing the big evening, according to several sources to 'Variety', according to which the final plans are far from being concrete in this predicament. The television broadcast is currently scheduled for February 28, 2021, on ABC. "They are likely to be postponed," one source told Variety. However, this person warned that the details, including potential new dates, have not yet been fully discussed or formally proposed. Another source claims that the date is currently unchanged at the ABC.

When new temporary changes to the eligibility rules for the Oscars due to Covid-19 were announced in April, Academy President David Rubin told Variety that it was too early to know how the 2021 Oscar TV show could change to following the pandemic. "It is impossible to know what the landscape will be," he said. "We know we want to celebrate the film, but we don't know exactly what form it will take."

AMPAS is looking at postponing next year's #Oscars amid the COVID-19 crisis https://t.co/504ntLWnZG pic.twitter.com/ulHzirfeW2

- Variety (@Variety) May 19, 2020

Breath suspended also for the Cannes Film Festival. Venice Film Festival Confirmed
Breath suspended also for the Cannes Film Festival. In fact, the 73rd edition will not take place at the end of June, but probably not even at the end of July, as had been speculated in recent weeks. The organizers are evaluating a festival in a digital key. But a collaboration with the Venice Film Festival, scheduled from 2 to 12 September 2020, in a formula yet to be defined, but also helped by the government's decision to reopen the cinemas from 15 June, is not excluded. Apparently there was a confrontation between the two artistic directors, Thierry Fremaux and Alberto Barbera. Both are very concerned about the fate of these festivals for 2020 and also for cinema in general. Barbera would have reported that “since the beginning of the crisis we have thought about the possibility of doing something together, in case Cannes is canceled. Let's keep talking about it. We have also received invitations from other festivals, from Locarno to San Sebastian, to Deauville. Gestures that touch us a lot ”.