The global coronavirus pandemic has upended the schedules of every entertainment and film event in 2020 and 2021, causing annual events to change their dates to adjust. The latest to do so is the BAFTA’s British Academy Film Awards, which is moving to April to match the Oscars.

Variety reports that the award show will now be held on Apr. 11, just two weeks before the Oscars, which itself was moved from February to Apr. 25. In a statement, the BAFTA (British Academy for Film and Television Arts) said the move was both because of the effect of the global coronavirus pandemic as well as a way for filmmakers to meet the award shows extended eligibility period.

Exactly what eligibility requirements need to be met is still something to be revealed by BAFTA. The organization had earlier discussed allowing films released on streaming services or video on demand to compete, in the same way that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has “temporarily” allowed it for the Oscars.

BAFTA is also seeking to reflect the diversity and inclusion rules that the Oscars are seeking to implement, declaring that they are working with the AMPAS to come up with a set of rules that can be applied to both the BAFTA Film Awards and the Oscars.

Variety quotes BAFTA film committee chairman Marc Samuelson as saying that once standards are agreed upon, competing films will have to pass diversity standards which in turn should speed up calls for diversity within the film and entertainment industry.

Deadline believes that this move by BAFTA will just be the first award show to reschedule their event so as to match the Oscars. The publication believes the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards will soon be announcing rescheduled award shows as well. The publication also reports that BAFTA is also considering rescheduling its 2022 film awards to a later date as well.

Earlier this year, the Cannes Film Festival was forced to seek out different ways to hold the festival after its already rescheduled June date was unable to push through. The film festival has instead chosen to collaborate with other film festivals to be held in September like the Venice Film Festival.

Even the Venice Film Festival revealed that they are expecting lesser participation from foreign filmmakers and press. The festival has also had to come up with digital ways to enable foreign press to cover the event.

Whether these award shows will be held in person or virtually is still being discussed, seeing as the global coronavirus pandemic is still ongoing around the world. The World Health Organization’s situation report for June 15 puts the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world at 7,823,289 people. Deaths caused by COVID-19 globally are now at 431,541 people.

According to The Guardian, the latest update from the government of the United Kingdom puts the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country at 296,857 people. Of that total, 157,293 are in England; 15,687 are in Scotland; 14,804 are in Wales, and 4,852 are in Northern Ireland. Deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United Kingdom are now at 41,736 people.