Oscar nominees and their guests can attend the 93rd Academy Awards as "essential workers"

Variety

The nominees and their guests can receive a special waiver for essential workers. “Those involved in the Oscars production, like nominees and their guest, qualify for the essential work purpose waiver, and therefore are permitted to travel to and from the testing center, rehearsals, and Academy-organized activities during the lead up to the Oscars production, including, of course, the award show,” according to a letter sent by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today. “The organizers of the Oscars are implementing a required quarantine to capture the risk of each person attending the event.” As Variety points out, "producers have continually maintained that the ceremony is being shot like a movie so implementing essential worker status follows the protocol for film and television shoots during the pandemic."