Breaking News!!! Aahhh!!! The Oscars postpone until April 25th & push eligibility to Feb 28th. They went to 10 Best Pictures, elected new governors, & enacted diversity, inclusion, and equality initiatives. Plus, Tenet moved again, amongst other films. What does it all mean?!

THE OSCARS OFFICIALLY MOVE TO APRIL 2021:

Oscars Postponed to 4/25/21 - 1:05

Academy Moves First - 6:47

What If It’s an April Sensation? - 11:18

Potential Impact on Film Festivals - 12:53

What’s The Vibe To This Oscars? - 18:44

NEW ACADEMY INITIATIVES FOR EQUALITY/CHANGES:

10 Guaranteed Best Picture Noms Starting 2022 - 21:27

(But The Bigger Story May Be Under The Radar)

Academy Apeture 2025 To Make New Oscars Eligibility Standards - 24:35

Oversight Office For Apeture - 26:01

Academy Dialogue Panels - 26:55

Academy Gold - 32:25

(+ Action - The Academy’s Women Initiative)

International Inclusion Initiative - 34:20

Ava on the Board of Governors - 35:22

CONTENDER/BLOCKBUSTER NEWS:

WB + Nolan May Be Clashing - 38:13

New Dates for WW84, Bond 25, Matrix 4, Soul + more - 42:55

Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 49:20

What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 50:48

Welp, we thought this news was gonna drop last week. But it’s just as well. We got the chance to review films like Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, and Shirley before all the madness erupted today on the trades. Because it’s now official - the Oscars have moved their date to April 25th from February 28th, and the latter is now the end of the eligibility for the film year of 2020.

What are all the other key dates to look out for now? Do all the other awards shows & film festivals push back as well? Can they? What does this move do to the film year of 2020? We break it all down in this Oscar Race Checkpoint episode.

The Academy also enacted initiatives towards diversity, inclusion, and equality, and we lay out how these rule changes could impact Oscar Races in our future and how the calendar shift may have averted a disaster in our present. They elected new governors & made a few other big changes to their streaming service and Best Picture category.

Finally, the film release calendar changed like crazy over the past few weeks and will likely continue to change. We speculate on what may continue to happen and dissect the moves from WB with Tenet & Wonder Woman as well as the ominous exodus of films to 2021.

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