Changes to Oscar voting process include actually having to watch the films
We will never know how many previous winners owe their success to voting simply based on ‘vibes’
I have some friends who are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I mention this not to show off but because one of them was visiting SA in December and was in a permanent state of anxiety about not having watched all the films eligible for the Oscars race before the deadline that members had to vote to finalise the nominations list for each category.
In the not-so-distant past, academy members would be sent watermarked DVD screeners towards the end of the year when award season swings into full gear. Today they can watch all the longlisted films through access to a special online screening platform. Its convenience doesn’t change the fact that there are often a wide selection of different films nominated across categories that dedicated academy members should watch before filling in their nomination ballots...
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