Lin-Manuel Miranda will miss the Oscars after his wife tests positive for Covid.

Lin-Manuel Miranda gained’t be attending the Oscars on Sunday, he mentioned on Twitter on Saturday, out of an abundance of warning after his spouse examined optimistic for Covid this weekend. He added that she was “doing high-quality,” and mentioned that he had examined unfavourable.

Mr. Miranda is up for the perfect unique music Academy Award for the music, “Dos Oruguitas” from the Disney musical “Encanto.” It’s the first music he’s written from “starting to finish in Spanish,” he instructed Vulture journal in January.

Moreover his colleagues in “Encanto,” Mr. Miranda says he will even be cheering on the solid and crew of the film, “Tick, Tick … Increase!,” which was Mr. Miranda’s directorial debut. It has acquired two Oscar nominations — one for Andrew Garfield in the perfect actor class and one for greatest movie enhancing.

The final time Mr. Miranda, who created the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” was a nominee on the Oscars was in 2017 for the music, “How Far I’ll Go” from “Moana.” If he wins on Sunday, Mr. Miranda would be part of the small variety of Hollywood heavyweights who’ve EGOT standing — those that have gained an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony — which incorporates Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg and John Legend.

After final 12 months’s socially distanced Oscars with separated seating areas, film lovers had been hoping for a return to normalcy with this 12 months’s ceremony, again at its longtime dwelling on the Dolby Theatre. (Final 12 months’s present occurred at Union Station in Los Angeles with much less fanfare.) On Friday, the Academy up to date its Covid insurance policies, saying in a press launch that “those that examined optimistic for Covid-19 and are inside a zero to five-day window from the date of their first optimistic take a look at are usually not permitted to attend below any circumstances.”