A Change in Oscar Rules Makes One Category More Exclusive, Another More Inclusive, But with an AsteriskWhen the Academy closes a door it opens a window, but only halfway.
This week The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences — the Oscar people — made a couple of significant changes to the nomination guidelines for two major categories, Best Documentary Film and Best Animated Film. In the case of the former, the changes make the category more exclusive, and in the case of the latter, they opened the category to a wider range of voters. Allow me to explain, via Deadline, who broke the news.
The changes in the doc category came about owing to the most recent winner, O.J.: Made in America, which caused some controversy when it was nominated seeing as it’s a 7 ½-hour multi-part, limited-run series that premiered at Sundance but then was released on television, specifically Espn, who...
This week The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences — the Oscar people — made a couple of significant changes to the nomination guidelines for two major categories, Best Documentary Film and Best Animated Film. In the case of the former, the changes make the category more exclusive, and in the case of the latter, they opened the category to a wider range of voters. Allow me to explain, via Deadline, who broke the news.
The changes in the doc category came about owing to the most recent winner, O.J.: Made in America, which caused some controversy when it was nominated seeing as it’s a 7 ½-hour multi-part, limited-run series that premiered at Sundance but then was released on television, specifically Espn, who...
- 4/10/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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