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Sorry Academy Members, But You Can’t Skip Three-Hour Movies Anymore
The AMPAS have added a requirement that tracks whether voters have seen all the movies in a category in order for them to vote.
Bad news for Academy members who aren’t Kirsten Dunst, but in an announcement from the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, members will have to watch every film in a category in order to vote in that category starting with the 2026 Oscars. It’s too soon to know, but without the convenient luxury of simply voting down the line for their friends’ movies, maybe there will be room in future years for performers in smaller films on the bubble of nominations to get the necessary push they need. But these solutions might be complicated or convoluted: setting up the screener app in your home theater and walking away, sending a lookalike to a festival to sit through low-budget, moody debut features, or hiring a CalTech student to make a plug-in that lets you watch nominated films at 1.5 speed.
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