Despite the coronavirus pandemic disrupting the industry and the usual ways of doing things, the show will go on for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its Scientific And Technical Achievement Awards. The Academy revealed Tuesday that 17 achievements, represented by 55 individual recipients as well as two companies, will be honored this year.
The various certificates and plaques, usually handed out during a non-televised black-tie dinner in Beverly Hills, will be presented in a virtual ceremony hosted by filmmaker Nia DaCosta on Saturday, February 13 and be available on the Oscars website starting at 1 p.m. Pt that day.
The awards themselves are almost as old as the Oscars, with the Academy first giving them out with the fourth annual Academy Awards in 1931. The last Scientific and Technical Achievement ceremony was two years ago, in February 2019. The Academy had announced the ceremony would be moved to June 2020, separate from the formal Oscar season,...
The various certificates and plaques, usually handed out during a non-televised black-tie dinner in Beverly Hills, will be presented in a virtual ceremony hosted by filmmaker Nia DaCosta on Saturday, February 13 and be available on the Oscars website starting at 1 p.m. Pt that day.
The awards themselves are almost as old as the Oscars, with the Academy first giving them out with the fourth annual Academy Awards in 1931. The last Scientific and Technical Achievement ceremony was two years ago, in February 2019. The Academy had announced the ceremony would be moved to June 2020, separate from the formal Oscar season,...
- 2/2/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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