In a sign that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is intent on having televised 93rd Oscars ceremony as the organization announced Tuesday that Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher, and Jesse Collins have agreed to produce the telecast, which will air on ABC.
Soderbergh is an Academy Award-winning director who burst onto the scene with 1989’s Sex, Lies and Videotape and won a best director Oscar for 2000’s Traffic. Sher is a twice Oscar-nominated producer whose first nomination came for producing Soderbergh’s other 2000 film, Erin Brockovich, And Collins, meanwhile, has experience producing televised awards shows — among them the 2019 Grammys, for which he received an Emmy nom.
Academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement,
“The upcoming Oscars is the perfect occasion for innovation and for re-envisioning the possibilities for the awards show,”
“This is a dream team who will respond directly to these times. The Academy is excited to work with them to deliver an event that reflects the worldwide love of movies and how they connect us and entertain us when we need them the most.”
“We’re thrilled and terrified in equal measure. Because of the extraordinary situation we’re all in, there’s an opportunity to focus on the movies and the people who make them in a new way, and we hope to create a show that really FEELS like the movies we all love.”
