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*
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
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
– ADG 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
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
26: Golden Globes final screening date for movies
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
3: *Golden Globes nominations announced*
* – Writers Guild TV, new media, news/radio and promotional nominations announced*
4: *SAG Awards nominations 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
11: *Producers Guild documentary nominations announced*
– Producers Guild sports, children’s, short-form nomination voting begins
– Cinema Audio Society nomination voting begins
12: Writers Guild film nomination voting ends
16: *Writers Guild film nominations announced*
19: Writers Guild final voting begins
– American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddies nomination voting begins
23: Golden Globes final voting ends
24: CAS nomination voting ends
– ADG 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
26: *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
2: *CAS nominations announced
– **ADG nominations announced*
4: Critics Choice final voting begins
5: Oscars nomination voting begins
– Writers Guild final voting ends
– Critics Choice final voting ends
7: *Critics Choice Awards*
8: PGA sports, children’s, short-form final voting ends
– ACE Eddies nomination voting ends
10: Oscars nomination voting ends
– SAG final voting ends
11: *ACE Eddies nominations announced*
– PGA film, TV nomination voting ends
– ADG final voting begins
12: *PGA nominations announced*, final voting begins
14: *SAG Awards*
15: *Oscar nominations announced*
19: PGA final voting ends
– ACE Eddies final voting begins
21: *Writers Guild Awards*
24: *Producers Guild Awards*
25: CAS final voting begins
26: ACE Eddies final voting ends
31: *Santa Barbara International Film Festival begins*

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*APRIL*
6: CAS final voting ends
8: ADG final voting ends
10: *Directors Guild Awards*
* – ADG Awards*
11: *BAFTA Awards*
15: *Oscar Nominees Luncheon*
– Oscars final voting begins
17: *Oscars Museum Gala*
* – CAS Awards*
18: *American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddies Awards*
20: Oscars final voting ends
24: *Film Independent Spirit Awards*
25: *Academy Awards*

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