Oscars in April? Here’s the COVID-Altered Awards Season Calendar

The 2020-2021 film awards season will be the most delayed and drawn-out season ever, with the Oscars pushed back from its usual late-February date to April 25 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Most of the other awards shows have adjusted to fit the Oscars timeline, but that timeline is itself unusually extended — there’s a full month, for instance, between the announcement of Oscar nominations on March 15 and the beginning of final voting on April 15. That’s the opposite of the awards season that ended at the beginning of this year, when the Oscars’ early Feb. 9 date caused a truncated, crammed calendar.

Here is the current awards timeline, with awards shows and nominations announcements in boldface. Given the unpredictable course of the pandemic, these dates are subject to change. In addition, many awards bodies have yet to set their dates.

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TheWrap will update this list as more organizations set their own timetables.

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*OCTOBER*
1: Gotham Awards deadline for submissions
15: *AFI Fest begins*
26: *Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations announced*
28: International Documentary Association’s IDA Documentary Awards shortlists announced

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*NOVEMBER*
7: *European Film Awards nominations announced*
8: Critics Choice Documentary Awards final voting begins
9: Critics Choice Documentary Awards final voting ends
12: *Gotham Awards nominations announced*
16: *Critics Choice Documentary Awards winners announced
*19: *Cinema Eye Honors first awards announcements
*24: *IDA Documentary Awards nomination announced*
30: Golden Globes deadline for submissions

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*DECEMBER*
1: Oscars submission deadline for animation, documentary, international and shorts
7: IDA Documentary Awards final voting begins
– Art Directors Guild Awards television submissions close
10: *Cinema Eye Honors nominations*
11: Writers Guild Awards deadline for submissions
12: *European Film Awards*
30: Golden Globes television nominations voting begins

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*JANUARY*
4: Writers Guild Awards TV nomination voting begins
– Art Directors Guild Awards film submissions close
– Critics Choice Awards television nominating committees begin consideration
8: IDA Documentary Awards final voting ends
11: *Gotham Awards*
– SAG Awards nomination voting begins
12: Golden Globes television nominations voting ends
– ASC Student Award nominations announced
– EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) round-one voting begins
13: Golden Globes film nominations voting begins
15: Oscars submission deadline for general categories
– Critics Choice Awards television nominating committees make recommendations
18: *Critics Choice television nominations announced*
20: Writers Guild Awards TV nomination voting ends
22: Writers Guild deadline for film submissions
25: American Society of Cinematographers television nomination voting begins
26: *Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations announced*
– Golden Globes final screening date for movies
– BAFTA round one voting ends
27: Golden Globes final date for press conferences
29: Writers Guild film nomination voting begins
28: *Sundance Film Festival begins*
30: Golden Globes film nomination voting ends

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*FEBRUARY*
1: Oscars preliminary voting begins in shortlisted categories
– SAG nomination voting ends
– ADG nomination voting begins
– Critics Choice nomination voting begins
– Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Prize voting begins
2: *Producers Guild Awards documentary nominations announced*
3: *Golden Globes nominations announced*
* – Writers Guild TV, new media, news/radio and promotional nominations announced*
4: *SAG Awards nominations announced
* – *BAFTA longlists announced*
5: Oscars preliminary voting ends
– Critics Choice nomination voting ends
8: *Critics Choice film nominations announced*
9: *Oscars shortlists announced*
10: Golden Globes final voting begins
– SAG Awards final voting begins
– Costume Designers Guild Awards nomination voting begins
11: Producers Guild sports, children’s, short-form nomination voting begins
– Cinema Audio Society nomination voting begins
12: Writers Guild film nomination voting ends
15: American Society of Cinematographers film nomination voting begins
16: *Writers Guild film nominations announced*
19: Writers Guild final voting begins
– American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddies nomination voting begins
– BAFTA nominations voting begins
23: Golden Globes final voting ends
24: CAS nomination voting ends
– ADG nomination voting ends
– CDG nomination voting ends
25: *Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala*
– PGA movies, TV series nomination voting begins
– PGA sports, children’s, short-form nomination voting ends
– ASC Awards student winners announced
26: *AFI Awards Lunch
*
– *PGA sports, children’s, short-form nominations announced*, final voting begins
28: *Golden Globe Awards*

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*MARCH*
1: ADG nomination voting ends
– BAFTA nomination voting ends
– Cinema Eye Honors final voting begins
2: *CAS nominations announced
– **ADG nominations announced*
4: *CDG nominations announced*
– Critics Choice final voting begins
5: Oscars nomination voting begins
– Writers Guild final voting ends
– Critics Choice final voting ends
– ASC nomination voting ends
7: *Critics Choice Awards*
– PGA film, TV nomination voting ends
8: *Producers Guild Awards nominations announced*, final voting begins
– ACE Eddies nomination voting ends
9: *BAFTA nominations announced
– ASC nominations announced
*-* Cinema Eye Honors ceremony
*10: Oscars nomination voting ends
– SAG final voting ends
11: *ACE Eddies nominations announced*
– ADG final voting begins
12: ASC final voting begins
14: *SAG Awards*
15: *Oscar nominations announced*
17: CDG final voting begins
19: PGA final voting ends
– ACE Eddies final voting begins
21: *Writers Guild Awards*
24: *Producers Guild Awards*
25: BAFTA final voting begins
– CAS final voting begins
26: ACE Eddies final voting ends
29: CDG final voting ends
31: *Santa Barbara International Film Festival begins*

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*APRIL*
6: CAS final voting ends
7: BAFTA final voting ends
8: ADG final voting ends
10: *Directors Guild Awards*
* – Art Directors Guild Awards*
11: *EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA Awards)*
13: *Costume Designers Guild Awards
*- ASC final voting ends*
*15: *Oscar Nominees Luncheon*
– Oscars final voting begins
17: *Oscars Museum Gala*
* – Cinema Audio Society Awards*
18: *American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddies Awards
– American Society of Cinematographers Awards*
20: Oscars final voting ends
24: *Film Independent Spirit Awards*
25: *Academy Awards*

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