The Peabody Awards are being rescheduled. Peabody said Thursday that its annual ceremony will be postponed from the previously announced date of June 18 due to the coronavirus pandemic. (THR)
This year’s ceremony was supposed to take place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, which would have made it the first time the event was held in Los Angeles in its 80-year history. (Variety)
Nominations for this year’s awards, which honor the year’s best stories from broadcasting, digital media, entertainment, the documentary world and news programming, had not been announced. That was coming in April, and winners were scheduled to be revealed in May ahead of the ceremony. (Deadline)
The Golden Globes will accept movie submissions without a theatrical release for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday. (USA Today / AP)
Previously, the HFPA mandated that contending films needed to be made available for exhibition in Los Angeles-area movie theaters or on a pay-per-view cable or digital service outside of a subscription-based medium. (EW)