Screw Zoom, the 2021 Oscars are happening live - The A.V. Club

According to Variety, a representative for the Academy said that “an in-person telecast will happen” and that there will be no Zoom version of the Oscars next year.

It sounds like nobody really knows much beyond that, including how many people will actually be allowed in Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater (where the Oscars are usually held) in April, but an unnamed publicist told Variety that the Academy recently did a “walkthrough” of the Dolby Theater “to see all multiple options.

April is pretty far away, but it still seems pretty optimistic to think that anything will be remotely “normal” by then—and that’s assuming these promising vaccines actually work out—so it’ll be interesting to see what the Academy comes up with here.