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* Free "screeners" of films in contention to these same voters, often for "little" movies which may not have been in the theaters long. |
* Free "screeners" of films in contention to these same voters, often for "little" movies which may not have been in the theaters long. |
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** What's sort of counter to the whole idea of the Academy Awards is that these "screeners" are usually just DVDs mailed en masse to all the voting members. In fact, very few voting members of the Academy Awards actually go to many theatrical screenings (if any). Some of this is because they almost always have jobs with odd hours (sometimes requiring them to go on location in a different country) and might not have the luxury of being able to catch a film in theaters. And even though some Mexican computer scientist has managed to create [https://web.archive.org/web/20090715085907/http://iteso.mx/~lcoria/index_archivos/page0005.html a watermarking technology for these screeners], there's always the Academy member who "coincidentally" happens to know the smuggler around the block, and yet the studios ''insist'' on giving away these screeners. |
** What's sort of counter to the whole idea of the Academy Awards is that these "screeners" are usually just DVDs mailed en masse to all the voting members. In fact, very few voting members of the Academy Awards actually go to many theatrical screenings (if any). Some of this is because they almost always have jobs with odd hours (sometimes requiring them to go on location in a different country) and might not have the luxury of being able to catch a film in theaters. And even though some Mexican computer scientist has managed to create [https://web.archive.org/web/20090715085907/http://iteso.mx/~lcoria/index_archivos/page0005.html a watermarking technology for these screeners], there's always the Academy member who "coincidentally" happens to know the smuggler around the block, and yet the studios ''insist'' on giving away these screeners. |
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* Specifically creating Oscar Bait Movies—historical costume dramas, of the kind mentioned above mostly—and releasing them one after the other in order to appear to be the ''studio'' that "gets the most Oscars." (Miramax was notorious for this—following up ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' with ''Chocolat'', ''Chicago'' and ''Cold Mountain''.) |
* Specifically creating Oscar Bait Movies—historical costume dramas, of the kind mentioned above mostly—and releasing them one after the other in order to appear to be the ''studio'' that "gets the most Oscars." (Miramax was notorious for this—following up ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' with ''[[Chocolat]]'', ''[[Chicago]]'' and ''[[Cold Mountain]]''.) |
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