The long Thanksgiving weekend provides an opportunity for award voters to pass the first filters — or, in the case of Oscars and BAFTA groups, scroll through their streaming room platforms. In many discussions with award voters, it is interesting to note that they have seen very few movies at this time of the year. Maybe it has something to do with the pandemic, many of them returned to work under the gun of the deadline, or may not have heard anything that aroused their enthusiasm for searching for it.
The live awards ceremony in Los Angeles has been very lively, especially Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" and the recent Paul Schrader's "The Card Counter" etc. Movies, both movies have star Oscar Isaac (Oscar Isaac) in attendance. But in the first year that DVDs are prohibited from being sent to Oscars and British Academy Film Awards voters, will each film receive enough attention to generate enough noise?
As far as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is concerned, there are still two weeks before the shortlist voting begins, when the ten branches will reduce their choices to 10 or 15 films. Categories include international feature films, documentary feature films, makeup and hairstyle, visual effects, animated short films, documentary short films, live action short films, original soundtracks, original songs, and the first reduction of the best sound effects to 10.
Last year, 238 documentaries were submitted for consideration by the department, breaking the 2017 record of 170. As of last Friday, 128 movies have been uploaded, and the college promised to upload more movies before the end of Wednesday. So we should not expect the total number of entrants to exceed the number of last year, but it may be close to the huge number of 2017 to some extent.
It is worth noting that due to the pandemic, this year's submission time is 10 months, while the standard is 12 months.
In order to get the best video voted by the entire college, the college streaming room currently has 109 functions. In the 2020 pandemic year, a total of 366 films competing for the top category were produced, which is the highest level since 1970, and we can see this number again by the end of the year.
In the international thematic competition, there are no official figures because the academy will not release it until later, but it appears that 93 countries participated, the same as last year. Somalia is the only country that submitted AMPAS for the first time as "Gravedigger's Wife", and the other three countries that resubmitted after being disqualified last year-"Héliopolis" in Algeria, and "Lunana: Yak in Class" in Bhutan "And Uzbekistan's "2000 Farida Song."
I don’t know how many of the 10,000 members of the college chose to vote on the shortlist. The list will be reduced to 15 before the official list is voted again for nominations. The nomination list will be announced on February 8, including other general categories. .
BAFTA's View online streaming platform is showing new aesthetics and user navigation. By categorizing the library by category, movie genre, and tags related to the gender of the director or underrepresented group, members can also track what they watch and record movie notes.
As of today, a total of 127 films are competing for the EE British Film Academy Awards, and there will be more in the future. It all started with A24's Kelly Reichardt's "First Cow", which was the first film uploaded to categories such as Best Picture, Actor (John Magaro), and Supporting Role (Orion Lee). The most recent upload is Emer Reynolds' documentary "Phil Lynott: Songs for While I am Away".
Compared with the Oscars, the British Film Academy Awards have different submission criteria for the best films of non-English films, so it is difficult to find the correlation with the Oscar category. So far, there have been 26 movies, and voters from across the pond can watch "Drive My Car" in Japan or "Lamb" in Iceland during the holidays. They can also choose options such as Pedro Almodóvar's Spanish "Parallel Mother" or Audrey Diwan's French "Happening".
There are 39 films looking for love in the outstanding British film category, including the musical "Everyone is Talking about Jamie" from Amazon Studios and "Mother's Day" from Sony Classics. There are also some unexpected competitors, such as Walt Disney Pictures’ Craig Gillespie’s "Crula", Marvel Pictures’ Kate Shortland’s "Black Widow" and Netflix’s Rebecca Hall The "pass". Roger Michell's last film "The Duke" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and is also seeking a memorial service for the beloved filmmaker who died in September s concern.
46 documentaries include Liz Garbus's "Becoming Cousteau" (National Geographic), Edgar Wright's "The Sparks Brothers" (focus movie) and Todd Haynes's "The Velvet Underground" (Apple original movie).
Some crossovers from the last awards season can still enter one or two lineups, such as "The Nest" by IFC with Carrie Coon and Jude Law and "The Surrogate" by Monument Releasing and Jasmine Batchelor.
Other high-profile movies on the platform are worth watching regardless of whether voters give them a chance: "A Quiet Place Part 2" (Paramount Pictures), "Pig" (Neon Light), "At the Heights" (Warner Brothers)), "They Go Deeper and Deeper" (Netflix), "Luca" (Pixar), "The Last Duel" (20th Century Studio), "Zola" (A24), "Still Water" (focus movie) , "Shangzhi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Marvel), "Tamifi's Eyes" (Searchlight Pictures), "Dear Evan Hansen" (Universal Pictures), "Annette" (Amazon Studios) and "Respect" (issued by MGM/Joint Artist)).
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