Here we go, the Motion Picture Academy mailed out its nomination ballots, IMDB carry the facts:
The motion picture academy on Monday mailed out nomination ballots to its 5,808 voting members for the 77th Annual Acadmey Awards. Members have until 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 15 to make their choices and return them to the academy’s offices. Nominees will be announced on Jan. 25.
That’s not too long to wait. When we do hear word we’ll make a couple of special posts which we’ll make constantly available on the navigation bar for you to discuss and make your votes known, then we can have a MovieBlog Awards and see how different they are to the Academy’s.
Along with the notice to the members of the Academy went a notice to the studio reminding them of the criteria in which they will be eligible for nomination:
…in order to be eligible for Oscar consideration, films must be screened for a minimum of seven days in Los Angeles County beginning no later than Friday (the last day of the year).
Quick! Rush out those final scenes of Post Production – get the movie out the door!
Personally I’m not influenced by the awards themselves, it’s more the exposure of certain movies. For instance the blurb a movie is given during the nomination speech might prick my ears up and make me think that movie would be worth seeing, or noticing the talent involved in the movie. Other than that, winning an award or two doesn’t influence me at all.
What do you think of the Oscars nowadays, are they are really worthwhile indication of quality and superior talent, or do you just view them as an interesting programme you might watch and it doesn’t influence your viewing in any form?
Would you prefer to see them scrapped or the voting system revised? Maybe adding a public panel of voters?
