Lin-Manuel Miranda Will No Longer Aid Oscars After Wife Assessments Sure for COVID-19

Lin-Manuel Miranda will not back the 94th Annual Oscars on Sunday night on the Los Angeles Dolby Theatre in particular person after his foremost other tested optimistic for COVID-19.

The award-a success composer announced he would depart out this Twelve months’s ceremony by design of his Twitter Saturday afternoon (March 26). “Made it to Hollywood… This weekend, my foremost other tested ➕ for COVID. She’s doing honest. Teenagers & I own tested ➖, nevertheless out of warning, I won’t be going to the Oscars tomorrow night,” he said.

“Cheering for my TickTickBoom & Encanto households w my possess household, alongside all of you, ALL of you,” he concluded in his tweet.

Miranda’s directorial debut, Tick, Tick … BOOM!, is up for two Oscars on the 2022 ceremony, in conjunction with Andrew Garfield’s finest actor nod. Also up for the annual honors is the Disney challenging movie Encanto, every in the finest challenging feature and finest authentic bag classes, the latter of which earned Miranda a nomination.

The challenging movie’s document-smashing track, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” is slated to be performed on the Dolby Theatre in every single place in the Sunday night ceremony, and if he wins for his work on but every other Encanto track’s music and lyrics (“Dos Orugutias”), the multihyphenate would possibly perhaps became the third-youngest EGOT winner at age 42.

The Academy launched up so a long way COVID-19 protocols and guidelines on Friday following a spike in optimistic circumstances amongst attendees at this Twelve months’s BAFTAS. In conserving with the unique protocols, “those who tested optimistic for COVID-19 and are inside a zero to five-day window from the date of their first optimistic test will not be popular to back below any circumstances,” amongst other requirements.

Old protocols established on March 11 required attendees to be fully vaccinated and clutch two PCR assessments earlier than the ceremony. Masks are tranquil not required for attendees contained in the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, nevertheless in accordance with the Academy’s up so a long way principles are strongly suggested, as is social distancing.

This article on the starting put regarded on The Hollywood Reporter.

Made it to Hollywood…

This weekend, my foremost other tested ➕ for COVID.

She’s doing honest. Teenagers & I own tested ➖, nevertheless out of warning, I won’t be going to the Oscars tomorrow night. Cheering for my TickTickBoom & Encanto households w my possess household, alongside all of you, ALL of you. -LMM

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 26, 2022