LOS ANGELES, March 24 (Reuters) – As Hollywood’s A-list celebrities collect for his or her annual celebration of the films at Sunday’s Academy Awards, the dwell telecast additionally will acknowledge the results of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Organizers supplied few particulars on Thursday however stated there could be a second throughout the Oscars ceremony that will acknowledge the invasion, which has killed hundreds and pushed 1 / 4 of Ukraine’s 44 million individuals from their properties.
“Whereas we would like the evening to be enjoyable and celebratory (and) we would like it to be an escape, it is a tumultuous time all over the world,” producer Will Packer stated Thursday at a press convention, including that the COVID-19 pandemic additionally remained a priority.
The present, which will probably be broadcast dwell on Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) ABC, “will acknowledge these issues and do it in a method that’s respectful,” he added.
Wanda Sykes, one in all three feminine comedians who will host the present, stated producers have “one thing deliberate that we love” relating to the scenario in Ukraine.
“It is natural and it is considerate,” she stated.
Final week, Oscars co-host Amy Schumer stated she had pitched the concept of inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to seem through satellite tv for pc, however she advised that producers had rebuffed her. “It is not me producing the Oscars,” she stated on “The Drew Barrymore Present.”
On Thursday, Packer didn’t rule out an look by Zelenskiy.
“The present remains to be in course of, in order that’s not one thing we might say definitively say somehow at this level,” he stated.
Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Enhancing by David Gregorio
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