The Oscars Academy will maintain its first award ceremony exterior the US subsequent month, handing out prestigious annual scholar awards in London. The gala on October 14 within the British capital’s Leicester Sq. will probably be a world first for the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, whose membership has grown sharply extra world lately. Winners, pre-announced this week, will embrace Au Revoir Mon Monde, a French animation a couple of man trapped in a large fish costume trying to race throughout a metropolis because the world ends in a mysterious meteor bathe.
Others embrace 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 important Oscars subsequent March.Whereas the 51st Pupil Academy Awards would be the first full, reside award present going down abroad, segments of Oscars telecasts have beforehand been introduced from abroad.
Diana Ross carried out a track 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 reside presentation honoring Star Wars creator George Lucas from aboard the House Shuttle Atlantis.
One-fifth of Academy members at the moment are from exterior the US, and greater than half of the brand new members invited to affix this 12 months had been additionally from abroad, together with Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet and the movie’s star Sandra Hueller.
Previous winners on the Academy’s scholar awards embrace a younger Spike Lee, Again 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 annually’s Oscar prizewinners.
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