They will kick off the Emmy Awards next weekend with Creative Arts ceremonies, followed by the Primetime Emmy Awards Monday, September 12 on NBC. Although the television awards season is still a few weeks away from making history, the Oscar season has officially begun.
Of course, that means that the hat-trick of the fall festivals of Venice, Telluride and Toronto kicks off the Oscar season, but it also means that the screening season begins. Unfortunately for AMPAS members who loved to collect these DVD screens to show their friends, this practice was confirmed when the Academy officially went digital last year and members now watch movies from the Academy’s digital projection room.
Today, the first batch of what we call “prize nominees” has been distributed to Oscar voters. We call them “competitors” because their distributors are paid $ 12,500 (if you factor in last year’s figure) just to be seen by 10,000 members with digital access.
These eight titles come from Netflix Febrile activity Including Adam Sandler and Amazon films all the old knives Y Teacher. Sundance Award winner called urgent it’s active, just like Universal’s blockbuster animated film bad guys. documentary films Navalni Y Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, Journey, Song They are there too.
Last but not least, Searchlight / Hulu’s good luck to you big lion with a gritty Oscar-winning performance by Emma Thompson; Until recently, the film wasn’t even eligible for Oscars because it streamed live on Hulu in June without a theatrical rating commitment. Searchlight appealed to the Academy, which recently reverted to pre-pandemic rules that required a seven-day theatrical release, and AMPAS agreed to opt out of the request because the distributor said it has worked out release plans based on the old. pandemic plan that allowed transmission. Movies to avoid cinemas. emphatically, hopefully for the Oscar, big lion It is now the first to be made available to all Oscar voters on the AMPAS website.
As for physical screeners that can’t be submitted to the Academy, others like SAG and Critics Choice they can I receive them and they tell me that next week the first screener will be in these inboxes: the above is well reviewed hustle and bustle which will travel to SAG Nominating Committee members (approximately 2,500) and approximately 500 Critics’ Choice Awards members.
Welcome to the Oscar season.
Source: Deadline
