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Producer
Credits Examined by Oscar
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Following
an industry-wide trend, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
has announced new guidelines for exactly who qualifies as a producer.
The new rules, created in response to some recent awards ceremonies
in which five or more "producers" have accepted the Best
Picture Oscar, are designed to ensure that those receiving statuettes
did actually do some work.
In future, studio executives and personal managers will not be permitted
to claim statuettes unless they actually performed hands-on work as
producers. Also, in order to receive the gold guy, producers must
have been credited as "producer," not "executive poducer"
or "associate producer." The awarding of producer titles
as a kind of courtesy to people only perpherally involved with the
actual making of a film has been a source of irritation to the Producers
Guild for some time. Still, although AMPAS' move will be seen as positive,
the fact remains that all such restrictions operate on an honor system.
AMPAS has also finalized the rules for the new animated feature film
Oscar. In order for it to be awarded, there must have been at least
8 eligible films released in the preceding year. The award will then
be given to the "key creative talent" on the film, not to
the vast army of people who usually work on animated features. |
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Today
in history... |
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1862 - It
was on this day that the Rev. Charles Dodgson told Alice Liddell
and her sisters the story of Alice, who followed a white rabbit
down a hole and entered a magical land. Alice Liddell insisted
that he write it all down.
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