Which Movies are Available on the Oscars and BAFTA Screening Rooms for Voters (So Far)?
17.10.2023 - 23:05
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Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor SAG-AFTRA may still be on strike, but studios are, nevertheless, pushing their Oscar contenders to garner the adequate (and allowed) attention they need to land nominations. One of the main methods is getting industry voters out to screenings and making films available on the Academy Screening Room and BAFTA screening platforms.
With the two significant organizations banning physical DVD screeners, voting members rely on the respective digital viewing portals to catch up on some of this year’s contenders vying for awards consideration. Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
The Academy performs a heavy vetting process for each film that chooses to submit for consideration. Historically, over 300 movies are in the running for best picture consideration, with more films joining the fray over the next several months.
Distributors are the ultimate decision-makers of when a movie is placed in the Academy Screening Room for viewing. Following the first wave of movies that dropped on Aug.
18, the Oscars currently have 45 movies among its best picture hopefuls, which include new additions such as Netflix’s Chilean black comedy “El Conde” from Pablo Larraín and Universal’s duo of horror hits “Cocaine Bear” and “M3GAN.” Other new additions: “The Beanie Bubble,” “Drift,” “The Eight Mountains, “Every Body,” “Flora and Son,” “Lakota Nation vs. United States,” “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” “32 Sounds” and “A Thousand and One.” There are also 18 international feature titles from their respective countries available, notably films like Australia’s “Shadya,” Bhutan’s “The Monk and the Gun,” Chile’s “The Settlers” and Finland’s “Fallen Leaves” which were
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