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Oscars 2020 Best International Feature Film Adds |
- As the Acaemy of Moton Picture Arts and Sciences adds more access for its mmbers via online Oscar screeners, this year marks the first time all voters will be also
- able to join the commttee voting on the foreign-language shortlist, in time for the 2020 awards season.
- Documenaries, aniated films, and shorts have already been made availble for viewing on the Acdemy’s screning site.
- The Acdemy is now adding nrrative feaures via their ownapp, which will be on Apple TV.
- The excepion right now is foreign-language films: Most of these films have no North American distrbutor.
- With a record 93 submisions this year, the international feature screenings will take place, as before, in Los Angeles, with participating voters signing in for a inimum of 15
- Academy screenings (they can also see films in theaters or at festivals).
- Last year, overseas voters could screen the shortlist online, and all Academy voters could watch the final five nominated films online and in theaters in New York, Los Angeles,
- The change is that once the shortlist of 10 (up one from the prior nine) has been selected from the 93 submissions, for the first time the entire Academy will
- be able to watch those films online to pick the final five nominees.
- The shortlist will be announced on December 16, followed by a marathon weekend of screenings in Los Angeles, London and New York from Friday, January 3, 2020 through Sunday,
- “We wanted to have a more international voice in this category,” said international executive committee co-chair Larry Karaszewski.
- We asked the question: should we make that list available to all Academy members, so that once again we could add more diverse voices?
- There are lots of Academy voters in Chicago, and all around this country, who would love to be part of this and can’t be.
- If we were already there, why not open it up?
- Karaszewski and his co-chair Diane Weyermann were also concerned about the Oscar calendar.
- “We were dealing with an abridged time span,” said Weyermann, because everything is contracted into a shorter period of time.
- With the change of the awards date [February 9], it was the difficulty of being able to screen.”
- The international film category is now the last, in fact, to require films in contention to be seen on the big screen in Phase One.
- “It’s important to keep that going as long as we possibly can,” said Karaszewski.
- “In Phase Two, even people who are part of our committee may have seen eight of the finalists, and miss two, and some will not have U.S.
- distribution, so this way they can see all 10 movies in order to vote.”
- The Academy wanted to make sure those who live outside Los Angeles, New York and London also had a crack at voting.
- “We know members care passionately about this award and want to participate,” said Weyermann.
- “The movement is toward trying to be more inclusive while also holding onto the cinema experience.”
- Here’s a bit from one of the Academy emails on the subject, sent to members.
- There are always healthy debates about rules changes at the Academy.
- “Rules may change and may stay the same,” said Karaszewski.
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