Oscars 2021: 5-10 feature films to be nominated out of 366
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced in a press release it sent to the legitimate media members that are on the Academy Press List that a total of 366 feature films will be considered for nominations in the Best Picture category at the Oscars 2021 to be held on April 25.
According to the complete 93rd Oscars rules, the Best Picture award will have not more than ten nor less than five nominations.
The list of the 366 movies is available at http://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility. The list also includes names of the performers eligible for consideration in the Acting categories.
Voting for nominations in the Best Picture category begins on March 5 and concludes on March 10. The nominations will be announced on March 15.
For the Oscars 2021 only, eligible feature films are those that open in a commercial movie theater in at least one of six US metropolitan areas — Atlanta, Georgia; Los Angeles County; the Bay Area; Miami, Florida; the City of New York and Chicago, Illinois — by February 28 and run for at least seven consecutive days in the same venue.
In the above cities, drive-in theaters open nightly qualify as commercial venues.
Movies intended to be shown in theaters but first made available via VOD service, commercial streaming or other broadcast can qualify if they are provided on the secure Academy Screening Room member website not more than 60 days of the broadcast or VOD/streaming release.
The running time of an eligible feature film must be more than 40 minutes.
The Oscars 2021 will be televised live on ABC and in over 225 countries and territories globally.
The Academy announced late last month the feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film categories. It was announced that twenty-seven animated feature movies, 238 documentary feature films and 93 international feature films were eligible.
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