Oscars 2021 kick off as 'maskless' movie, presenter Regina King declares
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The 2021 Oscars will bring to a close to the longest awards season ever in Hollywood.
Noting that it's "been quite a year" for presenters, nominees, performers, and the rest of the world as we are "still smack dab in the middle of it," the 93rd Academy Awards is a night "to celebrate," she said. "And yes, we're doing it maskless," King declared. "Well, think of this as a movie set, an Oscars movie with a cast of over 200 nominees. People have been vaxxed, tested, retested, social distanced and we are following all of the rigorous protocols that got us back to work safely. So, just like as a movie set masks off and when we're not rolling, masks on. Ok, that’s how we do it." The "One Night in Miami" director added that it would have been quite a different celebratory night for her had Derek Chauvin not been convicted in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd.
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