The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and its Board Of Governors, meeting virtually, have approved changes in the way films will be eligible for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards includin…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and its Board Of Governors, meeting virtually, have approved changes in the way films will be eligible for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards including lightening eligibility requirements for films debuting on streamers and VOD, as well as changes for some categories including broadening eligible voters in the International Film nominating process, and combining Sound Mixing and Sound Editing into one .
At the request of the Sound Branch itself, the current Sound Mixing and Sound Editing categories are being combined into one, thus reducing theprevious 24 categories to 23. I am told this consolidation was made by the Sound Branch members themselves and is not the result of any perceived attempt by the Academy at large to help reduce the running time of the Oscar broadcast.
In terms of the Best International Film category, all eligible voters in the Academy will now be allowed to vote in the preliminary nomination rounds, just as they currently are once the five nominees are chosen. They will also be able to do so by seeing the qualifying films on the Academy’s viewing platform. Previously this was done by a large committee of volunteers who were attended screenings of the films or could prove they had seen them elsewhere in theatres.
As far as Oscar qualifying film festivals are concerned those impacted festivals which present an online platform for films to debut virtually are being given an exemption this year , making films that otherwise qualify but that debut online in this way, or through transactional paywalls, still eligible to compete in the Academy Awards.
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