MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that the 86th edition of the Academy Awards now known as Oscars will happen in March next year to avoid a clash with the closing ceremony of Winter Olympics in Russia.
The 86th Oscars, which will be held on 2 March, 2014, would have clashed with closing ceremony of Winter Olympics in Russia had the organisers kept its traditional last-Sunday-of-February slot.
The 87th Oscars will be back to its routine in 2015 and will happen on 22 February, 2015.
The 86th and 87th Oscars ceremonies will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.
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86th Oscars shifted to March to avoid clash with Winter Olympics
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Robin Swicord on board of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Mumbai: Robin Swicord, who earned an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for 2008‘s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has been elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Here, she will represent the writer‘s branch. Her election was held to fill the seat left open by the death of Frank Pierson last July.
Swicord will join Bill Condon and Phil Robinson, who also represent the writer‘s branch on the board. Under the Academy‘s bylaws, she will remain on the board until the next regularly scheduled election scheduled in June, next year.
Swicord ‘s credits also include Memoirs of a Geisha, Matilda, Little Women and The Jane Austen Book Club that she also directed.