Oscars may rotate nominees and their guests at Union Station location

Variety

"The show’s producers are weighing a plan that would rotate nominees and presenters in and out of the area where the awards are being handed out as a COVID precaution," reports Variety's Marc Malkin. "Cleaning crews will then sanitize the area before the next batch of nominees and presenters take their seats. The idea is similar to what happened at this year’s Grammys where pods of performers and nominees were circulated in and out of the audience in four different groups. These pods were switched up roughly every 45 minutes."