No big shock here: Veteran director Glenn Weiss will be returning to helm the Oscars for the sixth straight year.The producers of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, made the announcement this morning, while further emphasizing that this year’s pandemic-affected broadcast will have a look like no other before.
Some of those details — including a ban on Zooms, so popular with other Covid-era shows including Golden Globes, Critics Choice and the upcoming truncated SAG Awards — were revealed in Thursday’s letter to nominees.
The producers have now teased even more with the hiring of Weiss.“Our plan is that this year’s Oscars will look like a movie, not a television show, and Glenn has embraced this