LOS ANGELES — A
“teeny-tiny” red carpet, no invitations for Hollywood’s most powerful moguls,
and a “central” role for masks — next weekend’s
Oscars are taking no risks when
it comes to
COVID-19, but the event still would have been “impossible” to hold
just weeks earlier, producers said Saturday.
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The 93rd Academy
Awards will mark the first time Tinseltown’s finest have assembled in over a
year, for a three-hour show that co-producer Steven Soderbergh said is “not
going to be like anything that’s been done before.”
The delayed ceremony
takes place barely a week after California opened vaccinations to all over-16s,
with infection rates plummeting after a massive winter surge ripped through the
state.
Asked by AFP about the
impact of the show’s two-month postponement, Soderbergh said: “It would have
been impossible for us to do what we’re gonna do ... I don’t know how we would
have done it.”
“This is the working
definition of trying to build an airplane while it’s in the air,” the director
told a virtual press conference, adding that his experience of making films
during the pandemic — and his 2011 thriller “Contagion” — had proven
invaluable.
The traditional red
carpet will be dramatically downsized, and the guest list will be so limited
that even powerful Disney boss Bob Iger “won’t be there”.
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