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  • [56] Rules[edit] According to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to
    midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, and play for seven consecutive days, to qualify (except for the Best International Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature, and awards in short film categories).

  • Films also can qualify by winning specified awards at one of several competitive film festivals designated by the Academy, also without regard to prior public distribution.

  • The Best Documentary Feature award requires either week-long releases in both Los Angeles County and New York City[a] during the previous calendar year, or a qualifying award
    at a competitive film festival from the Documentary Feature Qualifying Festival list (regardless of any public exhibition or distribution), or submission in the International Feature Film category as its country’s official selection.

  • [83] In 2010, the Academy contemplated moving the ceremony even further back into January, citing TV viewers’ fatigue with the film industry’s long awards season.

  • At that time, winners were recognized for the entirety of their work done in a certain category during the qualifying period; for example, Jannings received the award for
    two movies in which he starred during that period, and Janet Gaynor later won a single Oscar for performances in three films.

  • With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, and professionals were honored for a specific performance in a single film.

  • [39] Bruce Davis, in preparing a history of the awards for his book The Academy and the Award, found that the term “Oscar” had come from Eleanore Lilleberg, a secretary within
    the Academy when the award was first introduced, as she had been in charge of pre-ceremony handling of the awards.

  • For the Documentary award, the screening must start between noon and 10 pm local time; for other awards, no specific start time is required, but the film must appear in regular
    theater listings with dates and screening times.

  • [23] Because of the virus impact on films and TV industries, Academy president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson announced that for the 2021 Oscar Ceremony, streaming movies
    not shown in theaters would be eligible, though at some point the requirement that movies be shown in theaters would return.

  • [11] In 1940, the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began; as a result, the following year the Academy started using a sealed envelope to reveal
    the names of the winners.

  • [82] For many years the film industry opposed a Sunday broadcast because it would cut into the weekend box office.

  • For the second ceremony in 1930, and the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11:00 pm on the night of the awards.

  • [85] Originally scheduled for April 8, 1968, the 40th Academy Awards ceremony was postponed for two days, because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On March
    30, 1981, the 53rd Academy Awards was postponed for one day, after the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and others in Washington, D.C.[86] In 1993, an In Memoriam segment was introduced,[87] honoring those who had made a significant contribution
    to cinema who had died in the preceding 12 months, a selection compiled by a small committee of Academy members.

  • [69][70] Film companies will spend as much as several million dollars on marketing to awards voters for a movie in the running for Best Picture, in attempts to improve chances
    of receiving Oscars and other movie awards conferred in Oscar season.

  • [11] At the 29th ceremony, held in 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category, now known as Best International Feature Film, was introduced.

  • The Academy’s announcement of the new rule made no direct mention of that film.

  • [92] During the 2018 ceremony, host Jimmy Kimmel acknowledged how long the ceremony had become, by announcing that he would give a brand-new jet ski to whoever gave the shortest
    speech of the night (a reward won by Mark Bridges when accepting his Best Costume Design award for Phantom Thread).

  • On February 9, 2020, Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the award ceremony of 92nd Academy Awards.

  • Foreign films must include English subtitles, and each country can submit only one film for consideration in the International Feature Film category per year.

  • He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history.

  • [13] History The first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner function at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.

  • By that time, the television rights to the Academy Awards had been sold in 50 countries.

  • The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2020 and early 2021, was held on April 25, 2021, after it was postponed from its original February 28, 2021, schedule
    due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema.

  • Perhaps the most widely seen streaker in history was 34-year-old Robert Opel, who streaked across the stage of The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles flashing a peace
    sign on national US television at the 46th Academy Awards in 1974.

  • [37] The 1934 awards appeared again in another early media mention of Oscar: a Time magazine story.

  • [57][58] For example, the 2009 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker, was originally first released in 2008, but did not qualify for the 2008 awards, as it did not play its
    Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009, thus qualifying for the 2009 awards.

  • Owens is expected to continue producing other awards for the Academy and service existing Oscars that need replating.

  • “[36] The Academy credits Skolsky with “the first confirmed newspaper reference” to Oscar in his column on March 16, 1934, which was written about that year’s 6th Academy
    Awards.

  • For this first ceremony, winners were announced to the media three months earlier.

  • [60] Since the 90th Academy Awards, presented in 2018, multi-part and limited series have been ineligible for the Best Documentary Feature award.

  • [63] Producers must submit an Official Screen Credits online form before the deadline; in case it is not submitted by the defined deadline, the film will be ineligible for
    Academy Awards in any year.

  • [89][90] In 2010, the organizers of the Academy Awards announced winners’ acceptance speeches must not run past 45 seconds.

  • Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contributions to the field of motion pictures.

  • [79] Advertising is somewhat restricted, however, as traditionally no movie studios or competitors of official Academy Award sponsors may advertise during the telecast.

  • [75] Awards ceremonies Telecast[edit] 31st Academy Awards Presentations, Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959 81st Academy Awards Presentations, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 2009
    The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, commonly in late February or early March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the nominees.

  • The requirements for the qualifying theatrical run are also different from those for other awards.

  • Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the film-making industry of the time, for their works during the 1927–28 period.

  • Though his decision caused controversy, the first-ever Oscar to be sold passed to a private collector on August 6, 1992 for $60,500 ($116,800 today).

  • The qualifying theatrical runs must meet the same requirements as those for non-documentary films regarding numbers and times of screenings.

  • The Academy Awards is the world’s longest-running awards show televised live from the U.S. to all time zones in North America and worldwide, and gathers billions of viewers
    elsewhere throughout the world.

  • Another reason was because of the growing TV ratings success coinciding with the NCAA basketball tournament, which would cut into the Academy Awards audience.

  • Finally, a film that is selected as a gold, silver, or bronze medal winner in an appropriate category of the immediately previous Student Academy Awards is also eligible (Documentary
    category for that award, and Animation, Narrative, Alternative, or International for the other awards).

  • [94] Although still dominant in ratings, the viewership of the Academy Awards has steadily dropped; the 88th Academy Awards were the lowest-rated in the past eight years (although
    with increases in male and 18–49 viewership), while the show itself also faced mixed reception.

  • Academy Screening Room[edit] The Academy Screening Room or Academy Digital Screening Room is a secure streaming platform which allows voting members of the Academy to view
    all eligible films (except, initially, those in the International category) in one place.

  • : Made in America, an eight-hour presentation that was screened in a limited release before being broadcast in five parts on ABC and ESPN, in that category in 2017.

  • [65][66][67] In certain categories, including International Feature Film, Documentary and Animated Feature, nominees are selected by special screening committees made up of
    members from all branches.

  • In 2022, the nominees were announced in early February for the first time since 2003.

  • Awards in short film categories (Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Animated Short Film, and Best Live Action Short Film) have noticeably different eligibility rules from
    most other competitive awards.

  • [71] For example, a producer of the 2009 Best Picture nominee The Hurt Locker was disqualified as a producer in the category when he contacted associates urging them to vote
    for his film and not another that was seen as the front-runner (The Hurt Locker eventually won).

  • Additionally, the film must be shown at least three times on each day of its qualifying run, with at least one of the daily showings starting between 6 pm and 10 pm local
    time.

  • The main method is a week-long theatrical release in either Los Angeles County or New York City during the eligibility period.

  • The firm mails the ballots of eligible nominees to members of the Academy in December to reflect the previous eligible year with a due date sometime in January of the next
    year, then tabulates the votes in a process that takes thousands of hours.

  • However, such an accelerated schedule would dramatically decrease the voting period for its members, to the point where some voters would only have time to view the contending
    films streamed on their computers (as opposed to traditionally receiving the films and ballots in the mail).

  • Black tie dress is the most common outfit for men, although fashion may dictate not wearing a bow-tie, and musical performers sometimes do not adhere to this (the artists
    who recorded the nominees for Best Original Song quite often perform those songs live at the awards ceremony, and the fact that they are performing is often used to promote the television broadcast).

  • [61] The Best International Feature Film award does not require a U.S. release.

  • It is the culmination of the film awards season, which usually begins during November or December of the previous year.

  • It requires the film to be submitted as its country’s official selection.

  • Since 2010, winners have had the option of having engraved nameplates applied to their statuettes at an inscription-processing station at the Governor’s Ball, a party held
    immediately after the Oscar ceremony.

  • It was introduced in 2019, for the 2020 Oscars, though DVD screeners and Academy in-person screenings were still provided.

  • [93] The Wall Street Journal analyzed the average minutes spent across the 2014–2018 telecasts as follows: 14 on song performances; 25 on the hosts’ speeches; 38 on prerecorded
    clips; and 78 on the awards themselves, broken into 24 on the introduction and announcement, 24 on winners walking to the stage, and 30 on their acceptance speeches.

  • [44] Since then the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that the statuette be first offered for sale back to the Academy for US$1.

  • [76] Eligible films do not have to be added to the platform, but the Academy advertises them to voting members when they are.

  • [11] The term “Oscar” is a registered trademark of the AMPAS; however, in the Italian language, it is used generically to refer to any award or award ceremony, regardless
    of which field.

  • The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry in the United States.

  • [95] In August 2016, AMPAS extended its contract with ABC through 2028: the contract neither contains any notable changes nor gives ABC any further creative control over the
    telecast.

  • Another reason for the move to late February and early March is also to avoid the awards ceremony occurring so close to the religious holidays of Passover and Easter, which
    for decades had been a grievance from members and the general public.

  • Films eligible in the Documentary and International categories were made available in different sections of the platform.

  • The ceremonies were moved up from late March/early April to late February, since 2004, to help disrupt and shorten the intense lobbying and ad campaigns associated with Oscar
    season in the film industry.

  • [9][10] The Academy Awards ceremony was first broadcast by radio in 1930 and was televised for the first time in 1953.

  • Academy Awards predating this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums.

  • For films to be included on the platform, the North American distributor must pay $12,500, including a watermarking fee, and a digital copy of the film to be prepared for
    streaming by the Academy.

  • [55] In May 2011, the Academy sent a letter advising its 6,000 or so voting members that an online system for Oscar voting would be implemented in 2013.

 

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