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NewsColony New Oscar rules allow films that weren’t playing in theaters to be eligible for the 2021 ceremony The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has done away with one of its longstanding eligibility requirements for the 2021 Oscars , due to COVID-19. The Academy’s board of governors met on Tuesday, where they approved a ‘temporary hold’ on the requirement that a film must play in at least one theater in Los Angeles for seven consecutive days, according to Variety . While this opens the door for films whose theatrical releases have been delayed or eliminated due to the coronavirus outbreak, it doesn’t mean every streaming movie will be eligible. Oscar-eligible: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has done away with one of its longstanding eligibility requirements for the 2021 Oscars, due to COVID-19 The films that will be eligible under the new rules must have had a theatrical release already in place, before the COVID-19  outbreak led to t...