Academy awards

“For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times. They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone’s control,” Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement. “This coming Oscars and the opening of our new museum will mark a historic moment, gathering movie fans around the world to unite through cinema.” … [Read more...] about The Academy Sets New Oscars Show Date for April 2021

The new requirements come under the initiative called Aperture 2025, which aims to "encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience." Reportedly, the changes have been made in consultation with the Producers Guild of America and adapted from standards developed by the British Film Institute. … [Read more...] about The Academy Makes Inclusion A Requirement For Oscar Nominations From 2024

Thematically organized in seven sections, the exhibition is designed as a journey. To enter, visitors follow 4-year-old Mei, a character from My Neighbor Totoro, into the Tree Tunnel gallery, a transitional space that leads into Miyazaki’s enchanted worlds. Emerging from the Tree Tunnel, visitors will find themselves in the Creating Characters gallery, which features a multi-screen installation of short clips of Miyazaki’s main protagonists. This section highlights how his characters are developed from concept to creation and features original character-design drawings from My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) and Princess Mononoke (1997). Some of these artworks have never before been seen outside of Japan. … [Read more...] about Academy Museum Stays On Target To Open April 30, Details First Exhibit Dedicated To Animation Legend Hayao Miyazaki

Having at least one Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, Black/African American, Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native, Middle Eastern/North African, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander or unspecified other underrepresented race or ethnicity as a “lead or significant supporting actor” is a potential requirement under the new guidelines, with those ethnicities also mentioned for prominent production and marketing jobs. Additionally employing women, LGBTQ+, members of a Racial or Ethnic group, and people with cognitive or physical disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing may be required for at least 30% of actors in secondary and more minor roles, having a storyline centered on an underrepresented group, hiring creative leadership and department heads, maintaining least 30% crew composition, paid internships, and representation in marketing and distribution are also all potential areas in order to be a Best Picture contender. Producers don’t have to meet all of … [Read more...] about Oscar Shakes Up Best Picture Eligibility Standards; Strict New Diversity Requirements Take Full Effect In 2024

It comes after Jane Fonda made awards history at last year’s Britannia Awards by accepting her Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film while getting arrested in Washington DC during her string of climate-change protest events on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. … [Read more...] about BAFTA LA’s Britannia Awards Postponed Until 2021