Nigeria, June 16 -- The 2021 Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Academy Awards, which was scheduled to hold on February 28, 2021, will now hold on April 25, 2021.

"This is a much-needed boost for those films who may have been stalled in post-production," an Academy member told Variety magazine on Tuesday.

In the history of the Oscars award, the award ceremony has only been delayed three times. It was postponed for the first time in 1938 because of the Los Angeles flooding, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968; and following the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

It's not yet certain if the ceremony will be held virtually or in-person.

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