TWO-HUNDRED-EIGHTY-NINE FEATURE FILMS ELIGIBLE FOR 2013 ACADEMY AWARDS®

Two-hundred-eighty-nine feature films are eligible for the 2013 Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. To be eligible for 86th Academy Awards consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days.

Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format.

Feature films that receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release are not eligible for Academy Awards in any category. The “Reminder List of Productions Eligible for the 86th Academy Awards” is available at:

  http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/reminderlist.html.

The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 16, 2014, at 5:30 a.m. PT, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network.  The presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

If you subscribe to our feed, you will be informed as the winnowing-down lists are published, and when the final nomination list is finalized. It is not yet known the number of features that will be nominated in this category.

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VOTING FOR OSCARS® ENDS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Seth MacFarlane

Final voting for the Oscars will end Tuesday,
February 19, at 5 p.m. PT. Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted. The Academy is urging members who have chosen to vote by paper ballot to return them well in advance of the deadline due to the Presidents Day holiday on Monday, February 18.

The 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have until the 19th to vote in up to 24 categories. This year the Academy for the first time offered its members the option of casting their ballots online. Final voting began on February 8.

The votes are being tabulated and verified by the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, and presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood and Highland Center®.  The Oscar presentation will be televised live on the ABC Television Network and in more than 225 countries worldwide. For more information go to Oscar.com or download the official Oscars app.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT SHORT DOCUMENTARIES FOR 85th OSCARS®

Tuesday, September 4, 5 p.m., PT, is the deadline for documentary filmmakers to submit short subject documentaries and all required paperwork to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 85th Academy Awards.

To be eligible, the documentaries must complete a seven-day commercial run in a theater in either Los Angeles County or in the Borough of Manhattan in New York, between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012. Films completing their qualifying run after September 4 must still complete and submit all paperwork, including legal contracts, by the deadline.

Each completed entry form must be accompanied by supporting materials, including an English-language synopsis of the film, a list of film credits, filmographies of the director(s), 30 DVD copies of the film, and proof of seven-day qualifying exhibition.

Additional information about the documentary-award categories may be obtained by clicking here.
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Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™, Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Win Seats for Oscar Red Carpet, Deadline Sunday

Every year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives tickets for bleacher seats along the Red Carpet at the Academy Awards.  The registration for the drawing closes at midnight ET, this Sunday, September 18, 2011. 

Enter for a chance to win a pair of seats along the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards®, which will be held on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. 

All entrants must be 18 years old or older. For compete information and to register, click the title of this post. Good luck!

Oscar® Nominations Ballots Due Now

The 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences must return their completed Oscar nominations ballots no later than 5 p.m., tomorrow, Saturday, 23 January to to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted.

PricewaterhouseCoopers will tabulate the ballots using the preferential voting system. To view the list of movies eligible for nomination in the Best Motion Picture of 2009 category, and for other categories, see the "Oscar Eligible Films" link on the right sidebar. For more about the Academy Awards®, click title of this post.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 5:30 a.m., PT, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, 7 March 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m., PT, or 8 p.m., ET.

Oscar® Nomination Process

Back from a lovely break for the holidays. I hope you had a joyous one. I love Christmas and New Years. The first is more religiously and family oriented, and the second is party time! Both include great food. But, back to business.

By now, each of the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have their nomination ballot for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) by 5 p.m. on Saturday, 23 January 2010. Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted. Believe me, that last statement is true.

The PWC accounting firm makes sure that all aspects of the balloting processes, nomination and final, are conducted with fairness and accuracy. Prior to mailing, the staff administers a thorough verification process to ensure that there are no duplicate ballots and that none are missing.

In addition to being counted and sorted, the ballots are numbered to guarantee that each one is addressed to the appropriate Academy voter. Once ballots are returned, they will be meticulously guarded and tabulated by the staff at PwC, all of whom being sworn to secrecy.

Nominations will be announced on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Shortly after, screenings of all the nominated films will be held for Academy members, both in Hollywood and New York City.

I am able to write those last two paragraphs with complete confidence as I was once a part of the process at PwC. I was not on the accounting staff, but I was the Administrative Assistant to the partner in the firm in charge of the process at the time, Mr. Frank Johnson. Believe me, if the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000 had been run by PwC, we would not have had that outlandish debacle.

The 82nd Academy Awards Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, 7 March 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.