Oscars 2020 will be held on Sunday, 9 February, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. It is the biggest awards show for films.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about this year’s show.
- The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best films of 2019
- It is scheduled to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
- After more than a decade of holding the Academy Award ceremonies towards the end of February, the 92nd Academy Awards is due to take place earlier in the month, on February 9, 2020
- During the ceremony, AMPAS will present Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories
- The ceremony will be televised in the United States by ABC
- It is produced by Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain
- And directed by Glenn Weiss
- Citing the success of the format at the 91st presentation in 2019, ABC announced that the ceremony will again be conducted without a host
- In related events, the Academy held its 11th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on October 27, 2019
- The Academy Board of Governors voted in 2019 to move the ceremony from late February 2020 to early February
- The date, February 9, is the earliest day of the year in which the ceremony has ever been held
- The nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced on January 13, 2020, at 5:18 a.m. PST (13:18 UTC), at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills
- They were announced by actors John Cho and Issa Rae
- The Academy held its 11th Annual Governors Awards ceremony on October 27, 2019, and presented the following four awards
- These awards were: Academy Honorary Award to David Lynch, Wes Studi and Lina Wertmüller
- And the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award presented to Geena Davis
- At the 92nd Academy Awards, 53 films received 124 nominations
- Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations
- Followed by 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Irishman with 10
- Parasite, a South Korean film, has garnered 6 nominations overall and is one of the frontrunners for the Best Picture Oscar
- If this happens, then, it will be the first film not in English to win this award
- The following individuals are slated to present awards at the ceremony: Mahershala Ali, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Zazie Beetz, Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Colman, James Corden, Penélope Cruz, Beanie Feldstein, Will Ferrell, Jane Fonda, Josh Gad, Gal Gadot, Zack Gottsagen, Tom Hanks, Salma Hayek, Oscar Isaac, Mindy Kaling, Diane Keaton, Regina King, Shia LaBeouf, Brie Larson, Spike Lee, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, George MacKay, Rami Malek, Steve Martin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sandra Oh, Natalie Portman, Anthony Ramos, Keanu Reeves, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, Maya Rudolph, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Marie Tran, Taika Waititi, Sigourney Weaver, Kristen Wiig, Rebel Wilson
- During its board of directors meeting in April 2019, the Academy voted to rename the Best Foreign Language Film category to Best International Feature Film
- Animated and documentary films will also be eligible for the renamed award
- But the category will still require nominees to have the majority of their dialogue be in a language other than English
- The category of Best Makeup and Hairstyling has been expanded from seven finalists and three nominees to ten finalists and five nominees
- On January 9, 2020, ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke revealed that the ceremony would once again forego a host
- Citing the success of the format at the previous ceremony
- Burke promised that the ceremony would feature “huge entertainment values, big musical numbers, comedy, and star power”
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