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The Academy Awards this year are coming up next month after being delayed until April 25th from the original airdate of February 28th. The delay was obviously due to the coronavirus, with this amendment being announced way back in June 2020. Of course a lot has changed with regard to the pandemic in this time, but one thing that has not been adjusted is the attendance of people in movie theatres. Since no one is able to attend theatres, we have a bottleneck of releases that have been delayed with no end in sight, so the nominees this year can be viewed by some as not a full slate, but I am happy with what I have seen thus far. As the box office output for films is going to be greatly reduced, a lot studios have delayed some of their big box office hits for another time when things are open again. Christopher Nolan pushed ahead with his plan for Tenet, which has been accepted as a bit of a failure when it came to releasing things to the public. Due to this, on occasion studios have sold their films to another distributer who is able to provide a link for fans during this time, Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max are some of the services doing exceptionally well all things considered. But what about this years nominees?
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