The Oscars Academy will maintain its first award ceremony outdoors the United States subsequent month, handing out prestigious annual pupil awards in London.
The gala on October 14 within the British capital’s Leicester Square will probably be a world first for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose membership has grown sharply extra international in recent times.
Winners, pre-announced this week, will embody “Au Revoir Mon Monde,” a French animation a couple of man trapped in an enormous fish costume making an attempt to race throughout a metropolis because the world ends in a mysterious meteor bathe.
Others embody an experimental film about teenage sexual awakening from Taiwan, a brief movie set throughout China’s 1910 plague outbreak, and a documentary from a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.
Gold, silver and bronze placements for the winners will probably be introduced on the ceremony, with all successful movies eligible to compete on the essential Oscars subsequent March.
While the 51st Student Academy Awards would be the first full, dwell award present going down abroad, segments of Oscars telecasts have beforehand been introduced from abroad.
Diana Ross carried out a tune from Amsterdam in 1976, Michael Caine launched the 1991 Oscars from a historic Paris cafe, and the next 12 months’s ceremony even featured a dwell presentation honoring “Star Wars” creator George Lucas from aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
One-fifth of Academy members at the moment are from outdoors the US, and greater than half of the brand new members invited to hitch this 12 months had been additionally from abroad, together with “Anatomy of a Fall” director Justine Triet and the movie’s star Sandra Hueller.
Past winners on the Academy’s pupil awards embody a younger Spike Lee, “Back To The Future” filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and 007 director Cary Fukunaga.
The invite-only Academy — whose members have achieved excellence of their respective fields, from appearing and directing to costume design and make-up — votes for every year’s Oscar prizewinners.
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