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Producers Detail Pandemic-Inspired Changes For This YearтАЩs Oscars

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By Brent Furdyk.

ItтАЩs no secret that award shows have been forced to adapt to the new normal of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the 93rd Oscars coming up next weekend, producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh participated in a press conference on Saturday to discuss their plans to adapt this yearтАЩs show to this era of social distancing.

Unlike the Emmys and the Golden Globes, reported The Wrap, winners wonтАЩt be accepting their awards via Zoom from their living rooms. According to the producers, this yearтАЩs ceremony will тАЬannounce itself as being differentтАЭ right from the get go.

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Nominees who are able to attend in person will do so; for those who canтАЩt, тАЬsatellite hookupsтАЭ will substitute for Zoom. By the end of the broadcast, the producers promised that viewers тАЬwill be talking about how they made this happen.тАЭ

According to Soderbergh, their intention for the show is to тАЬget us out of this feeling that weтАЩre trapped at home. We want to see something that does feel like a potential future.тАЭ

Soderbergh also teased, тАЬMasks are going to play a very important role in the story of this evening. If that sounds cryptic, itтАЩs supposed to be.тАЭ

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Soberbergh admitted he was hopeful that the atmosphere the producers have created will be conducive to having winners тАЬtell a story.тАЭ

Added Soderbergh: тАЬEmotion is up in your grill. It will be really intense.тАЭ

In addition to mounting an entertaining award show, the producers also feel that this yearтАЩs Academy Awards will have created a тАЬtemplateтАЭ for how other award shows can go forward, but conceded itтАЩs been challenging.

тАЬItтАЩs like building a plane while itтАЩs in the air,тАЭ Soderbergh explained.

тАЬIt opened up an opportunity to try some things that havenтАЩt been tried before,тАЭ he added. тАЬWe want the show to have a voice.тАЭ

The Oscars take place on Sunday, April 25.

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