Oscars 2021: All you need to know about the reinvented awards ceremony, when and where to watch
FirstpostOscars 2021 can be watched on Star India and and Star World on 26 April at 5.30 am. There will be no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees attending the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union Station — this year’s hub for a show usually broadcast from the Dolby Theatre. The show will be shot in 24 frames-per-second, appear more widescreen and the presenters are considered “cast members.” The telecast’s first 90 seconds, Soderbergh has claimed, will “announce our intention immediately.” Here’s a guide to everything there is to know about the reinvented awards ceremony. Presenters The presenters this year include Laura Dern, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger — as well as Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Bong Joon Ho, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Reese Witherspoon and Zendaya. If the winners from the Screen Actors Guild Awards hold — Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’s Chadwick Boseman for best actor, Viola Davis for best actress; Yuh-Jung Youn for best supporting actress; and Daniel Kaluuya for best supporting actor — it would the first time nonwhite actors swept the acting categories — and a dramatic reversal from recent “OscarsSoWhite” years.