The ceremony of the Oscars of honor – Governors Awards -, ceremony organized every year in Los Angeles in the United States, will have to be postponed due to the threat of the new Omicron variant which hangs over California, announced on Wednesday. December 22, the organizers. No new date has been set for the Governors Awards at this point.
Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover and Norwegian Liv Ullmann, as well as artist Elaine May, were due to receive the prestigious golden statuettes for Lifetime Achievement next month at the Governors Awards, an event that attracts all the greats Hollywood names.
“We made the difficult decision to change our plans for the Governors Awards reception on January 15th”, announced in a statement the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the cinema, which awards the Oscars. “Given the uncertainties around the variants and the impact they could have on our community, we believe this is the best and safest decision for the winners and our guests.”, explains the Academy.
Last year, the ceremony was canceled altogether due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the Oscar night itself was able to go as planned in April. The 2022 edition of the Oscars is, for the moment, not called into question and is still scheduled for March 27.
Several canceled or postponed events
The first events of the film awards season kicked off this year in flesh and blood, with screenings, galas and red carpets. But several have been canceled or postponed in recent days due to the rise in contamination, such as the red carpet for the new Star Wars series, “The Book of Bobba Fett” or the Palm Springs International Film Festival gala.
California posted the lowest Covid-19 positivity rate in the United States on Wednesday, 3.3%, and continues “To be in the lead in the country in terms of doses of vaccines administered”said state governor Gavin Newsom. But California has “Recorded a significant increase in the number of Covid cases” over the past seven days, he warned, and recent data suggests that the Omicron variant has become the majority in these new infections.
The resurgence of the coronavirus did not prevent the success of the new Marvel film, however, « Spider-Man : No Way Home », which smashed revenue records. The superhero film grossed $ 260 million in the United States and Canada for its first weekend of operation. Since the start of the pandemic, no film has managed to reach the symbolic mark of 100 million.
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