With this year's Oscars ceremony still scheduled to go ahead on Sunday, Academy Award organisers say the red carpet entrance of the stars will be cancelled because of the looming war with Iraq.
The show's producer, Gill Cates, told a press conference that this year's ceremony would be toned-down and the traditional red carpet would not be in place because celebrities might feel uncomfortable posing and discussing films while US troops were at war.
However, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President, Frank Pierson, would not discuss the possibility that the Awards could be cancelled or postponed in the coming days.
Oscar officials are due to meet the press again on Friday.
The Oscars have never been cancelled in their 75-year history but have been postponed three times, following the Los Angeles floods of 1938, the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior in 1968 and the shooting of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
