00James A. MolnarWednesday, April 24, 20242024-04-24T18:30:00-04:00Edit this postThe Academy announced the rule changes on April 22 for the 2025 Oscars. As is the annual tradition, The Academys Board of Governors approved rules for next years Academy Awards.The Academy announced the rule changes on Monday, including no more drive-in theater eligibility and expanded theatrical eligibility requirements.EligibilityFor the 97th Academy Awards, a feature film must have a qualifying theatrical release between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024.The six qualifying U.S. metropolitan areas will now include Dallas-Fort Worth (instead of Miami, Florida), in addition to Los Angeles County; the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia.Expanded theatrical eligibility requirements for Best Picture, approved by the Board of Governors in June 2023, will take effect for the 97th Oscars. Upon completion of an initial qualifying run, currently defined as a one-week thea...
Summary The Oscars' new rule demands movies to be shown in theaters for a week, boosting the importance of theatrical releases for Best Picture consideration. The rule expands the criteria to include 10 U.S. markets and non-U.S. territories, pushing streaming platforms like Netflix to embrace theatrical runs. Although Netflix may face challenges, the new Oscars rule sets a precedent for more movies to hit theaters, increasing audience access and preserving the theatrical experience. A new rule for the upcoming 2025 Oscars adds a positive spin on Academy Awards nominations. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has organized the Academy Awards since it was formed in 1926, has implemented several minor rules changes for the 97th Oscars, which are set to take place in early March 2025. While the 2024 Oscars occurred only months ago, a new slate of Oscar contenders has already started to make itself known as the summer 2024 theatrical season edges closer. Some of the most...
The Academys Board of Governors has released the new official awards rules and campaign promotional regulations that it will implement for the 97th Oscars, IndieWire is reporting. The biggest change is the expansion of the theatrical requirements for the Best Picture category for the movie industrys most prestigious awards ceremony, which will be held on March 2, 2025.Other new rules and regulations include animated feature films being able to submit for Best International Feature Film and Best Animated Feature Film, if eligibility requirements outlined for both categories are met. This change is meant to help animated international films that may not have access to U.S. distribution.Animated movies selected as a countrys international feature selection will no longer need to meet general entry standards to be considered for the Animated Feature award. They would, however, still need to be ruled eligible under The Academys definition of animation.The Best Original Score category ha...
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The theatrical requirements for movies vying for the Oscars top prize are getting a little tougher.Starting with the 97th Academy Awards in 2025, best picture hopefuls will have to spend more time in theaters to qualify for films top prize. The changes, announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week, come after three years of adjusted release standards due to the pandemic.On top of the current one week qualifying run in one of six U.S cities New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco or Miami best picture contenders would now must also now play for an additional seven days in 10 of the top 50 U.S. markets. Additionally, theres several other new rules about when the movies must play in theaters.It is our hope that this expanded theatrical footprint will increase the visibility of films worldwide and encourage audiences to experience our art form in a theatrical setting, Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang said in a state...
Entertainment By Li Cohen Updated on: September 9, 2020 / 7:25 PM EDT / CBS News Oscars set inclusion standards for Best Picture nominees The Oscars have come under fire the past few years for lacking in diverse nominees across its categories. On Tuesday, however, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that movies will now have to meet new representation and inclusion standards in order to be eligible to be nominated for Best Picture one of the "Big Five" categories of the annual event which may make #OscarsSoWhite a trend of the past.The new standards are a part of the Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, and were "designed to encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience," the Academy said in a statement.Similar to years past, the2020 Oscars were criticized for a lack of representation, with film critic Justin Chang noting the nominees felt like a "return, in a lot of ways, to a kind of a...
The MGM lion is one of the most famous movie logos in history.Since 1917, it has roared at the start of thousands of films.The lion became a symbol of Hollywoods Golden Age of cinema.Seven different lions have played the role of MGMs mascot over the years. Each lion had its own unique story.The first lion, named Slats, didnt even roar.He just looked around silently at the start of MGM films from 1917 to 1928.The current MGM lion is named Leo.He has been the face of the studio since 1957.Leos iconic roar has introduced movies for over 60 years.His image has become so popular that it has been spoofed many times in other films and TV shows.History of MGMMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM, has been a major force in Hollywood for nearly a century.The studios journey is filled with triumphs, challenges, and transformations that shaped the film industry.Origins and FoundersMGM was born in 1924 when Marcus Loew merged three film companies: Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pro...
The Academy Awards grew up at the 16th annual ceremony March 2, 1944. Since the first Oscar ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelts Blossom Room in 1929, the Academy Awards were small banquet ceremonies for La La Land movers and shakers. But that all changed 80 years ago. World War II was in its third year and movies meant more than ever to war-weary audiences.So, the Oscars moved to the then-Graumans Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and bleachers were introduced giving fans a chance to see their favorites walk the red carpet. And instead of a select industry audience, attendees included members of all branches of the armed services many of whom sat in bleachers on the stage at the Chinese. The ceremony was heard locally on KFWB; Jack Benny hosted the international broadcast for the troops on CBS Radio via shortwave. And for the first time, supporting performers finally received a full-size Academy Award. Since there awards introduction seven years earlier, winners had received a plaque wh...
HistoryIn 1927, the nation sank its fangs into the real-life drama of a Hollywood lion stranded in Arizonas Rim Country.The Ryan B-1 Brougham airplane that took off from San Diego in September 1927 bound for New York transported feline royalty in its backseat no ordinary pussycat, but a fully grown, 12-year-old male African lion named Jackie, newly tapped by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio to be Hollywoods best-known mascot.Jackie was taking over the role of Leo the Lion, the trademarked jungle cat famous for opening MGM movies by roaring his dominance across the big screen. To promote his new role, the studio was flying Jackie across the country. His journey, however, would end far short of the destination. Five hours after departure, the plane and its occupants vanished. The mystery of their whereabouts would not be solved until four days later, when a disheveled man dressed in a lion-tamer costume staggered onto a remote Arizona ranch beneath the Mogollon Rim.The ensuing saf...