The basement of a hotel, an Al Malaikah temple and the annex to an outdoor shopping mall are just some of the locations where the Academy Awards have been held during its 93-year history.
But with the pandemic comes great change in the entertainment industry, and what better time than to switch up Oscar venues — in this case trading the Dolby Theatre for the John and Donald Parkinson-designed, 82-year-old Union Station in downtown Los Angeles?
As Oscars producer Stacey Sher mentioned at a presser on Saturday, “We are here to make a case why cinema matters,” and Union Station is an iconic landmark in the movie capital of the world, where such features as crime noir Union Station, The Way We Were, To Live and Die in L.A., Blade Runner and The Dark Knight Rises were shot. As Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote, Oscar producer Steven Soderbergh’s “manifesto” is...
But with the pandemic comes great change in the entertainment industry, and what better time than to switch up Oscar venues — in this case trading the Dolby Theatre for the John and Donald Parkinson-designed, 82-year-old Union Station in downtown Los Angeles?
As Oscars producer Stacey Sher mentioned at a presser on Saturday, “We are here to make a case why cinema matters,” and Union Station is an iconic landmark in the movie capital of the world, where such features as crime noir Union Station, The Way We Were, To Live and Die in L.A., Blade Runner and The Dark Knight Rises were shot. As Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote, Oscar producer Steven Soderbergh’s “manifesto” is...
- 4/21/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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