The Academy Awards won't mandate COVID vaccination condition for the attendees of the awards on March 27, but other awards insist on the criteria.

COVID-19 led to the cancellation of numerous events in recent time while some events were either held virtually or with a smaller audience. The Academy Awards had been a smaller-sized event last year, having to move away from the traditional venue, Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, to Union Station. With a drop in cases after a recent high, that had led to the postponement of Grammys this year, the Oscars are also set to return in a full-fledged manner.

Full vaccination has become a common requirement to attend large-scale events, and the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics Choice Awards are among those to mandate this condition. However, the Academy Awards will not be mandating the proof of the doses to attend the awards ceremony. The Academy will mandate a negative RT-PCR test or a negative antigen test on the day of the event for the attendees.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as per a report on The Hollywood Reporter, does not intend to make proof of vaccination mandatory for the attendees of the Academy Awards on March 27. The organisers are likely to put forward the requirement for negative RT-PCR test or a negative antigen test result on the event day. 

One of the reasons for the Academy not going forward with the full vaccination criteria was because several high-profile names would not be able to make it for the event. Among those who could thus miss out on attending the event were one of the winners from the acting awards last year and members of the cast and crew of the Best Picture nominees this year, the report added.