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    Christopher Silvester on Cinema

    Dec 23, 2020 4 minutes

    WITH MOST CINEMAS in the United States and Europe closed, and the major studios holding back most of their 2020 releases until the end of next year, including Steven Spielberg’s remake of the musical West Side Story, we are entering an untypical awards season.

    Because of the Covid pandemic, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided that it will host an in-person ceremony on 25 April, two months later than usual, and accordingly has extended the eligibility period for entries by two months (from 31 December, 2020, to 28 February 2021), which means a seven-month period of

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