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Movie Theater Owners Want to Vote for Oscars and Push to Join the Academy: ‘We Watch Everything… It’s a No Brainer’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Inside the theater owners' push for the Oscars to invite more exhibitors to join the Academy.
At the end of June, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is expected to extend invitations to a new class of members who meet the professional qualifications to join the most prestigious club in Hollywood. Under the updated criteria, films must still complete a one-week qualifying run in one of six U.S. markets — Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami or Atlanta — but they must also meet new standards for broader theatrical distribution. Globally, industry leaders include Alejandro Ramirez Magaña of Mexico’s Cinépolis and Pavan Jain of India’s PVR INOX, both of whom oversee thousands of screens across multiple territories.
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