Ben Apfelbaum

HOLLYWOOD POSTPONES ITS CINEMA AND TV AWARDS CEREMONIES

For the fourth time since the Academy Awards were inaugurated in 1929 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that’s would delay the next Oscar’s Ceremony from February 28 to April 25 because of the coronavirus.

It would appear that the Golden Globes will slot into the vacated  February 28th date.

As a result of many productions closing down the eligibility date for the rescheduled Academy Awards was extended to February 28, 2021 instead of December 13, 2020.

In.a further easing of the rules, streaming services would not have to have a cinematic release to be eligible Academy Awards.

The Academy also announced a new plan to promote nominee diversity commencing from the  2022 awards, The rules, and criteria in relation to nominee diversity have not as yet been finalised.

Meanwhile, the Creative Arts Emmys, at which the majority of Emmys are awarded annually, will be held online in September 2020.

The main Emmys telecast is scheduled for 20th September but its exact format has not yet been settled

The three past Academy Award postponements were due to a disastrous flood in Los Angeles in 1948, the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, and the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

The April 25th date is the latest date in the Award’s history.

Across the Atlantic the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAS) are being postponed from February 14, 2021  to April 11, 2021.

What this means is that the cinema-going public will have to wait until January or February to see Oscar worthy films. This is due to the tact that studios usually release their hopeful movies all at once to the latest date possible under the rules so that they will be fresh in the minds of Academy voters.

 

 

 

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.