The holidays are here, Oscar voters. What are you going to see?
At this point in the calendar, the answer might be almost “everything,” but maybe not everywhere, and definitely not all at once. The Academy Screening Room, the members-only portal where studios can place their films for voters to see, has 178 films at the start of Christmas week, including all but a couple of the major Best Picture contenders. three hours recently. featured, Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” and James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
Those movies, begging to be seen on the biggest and loudest screen possible, have yet to be added to the Academy’s Screening Room, a location that costs $20,000 (although with a discount available for low-budget productions). But while the ASR got off to a slow start this year, the other contenders are now available for members to watch, even if they don’t want to hit the theaters or screening rooms over the holidays.
Films do not have to pay to be on the ASR to qualify for Oscar consideration. In January, the Academy will publish its Reminder List of Eligible Productions, which will no doubt include many more films than are found on the ASR. Once nominations are announced, all nominees are placed on the platform, regardless of whether they have paid or not.
The 178 films currently in the screening room include more than 40 documentaries, around two-thirds of the 27 films eligible for Best Animated Feature and a dozen of the 92 entries in the Oscars’ Best International Film category. In those three areas, movies are put in special screening rooms for specific categories free of charge, but they can also pay to reach more voters, especially if, like international films like “Decision to Leave” and “Corsage” or animated features like “The Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro”, can collect votes in other categories.
The rush of contenders into the screening room began just before Thanksgiving, the typical time when studios start inundating voters with screens or screening links to take advantage of pre-holiday downtime.
On November 18, the Friday before Thanksgiving, additions to the ASR included “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Tar, “The Woman King,” and “The Batman,” as well as Pixar’s “Turning Red” and the critically acclaimed indie film “Aftersun.” Four days later, on the Wednesday of Thanksgiving week, they were joined by a smaller batch of new additions, including “Amsterdam,” “Bros,” “The Good Nurse,” “The Inspection,” and “The Son.”
(That batch was unusual in that it arrived on a Wednesday; new additions to the screening room are typically made on Fridays.)
On December 2, a larger group of new movies included “Causeway,” “The Eternal Daughter,” “She Said,” the Indian hit “RRR,” and the year’s highest-grossing animated film, “Minions: The Rise of Gru “. ” December 9, which fell just before the start of shortlist voting, brought the most impressive list of contenders: “The Fabelmans”, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, “Women Talking”, “Bardo “, “Black Panther”. : Wakanda Forever”, “Bones and All”, “Pinocchio”, “Living”, “Triangle of Sadness” and the Will Smith vehicle “Emancipation” were all included. And on December 16, he added “Empire of Light,” “A Man Called Otto,” “The Whale,” and an unusual entry, “Jackass Forever.”
Here’s the full list of movies available in the Academy’s main screening room starting December 19.
Reply (documentary)
“After the sun”
“Alice, Honey”
“All quiet on the western front” (international)
“Everything That Breathes” (documentary)
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (documentary)
“All the old knives”
“The almond and the seahorse”
“Amsterdam”
“Apollo 10 ½” (animated)
“Argentina, 1985” (international)
“Time of Armageddon”
“Athena”
“The Automaton” (documentary)
“Bad Boys” (animated)
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Bardo, false chronicle of a few truths” (international)
“Batman”
“Drink” (documentary)
Bitterbrush (documentary)
“black adam”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Blond”
“The Bob’s Burgers Movie” (Animated)
“Bones and all”
“Rip”
Brian and Carlos
“Brothers and sisters”
“Bully”
“Call Jane”
“Catherine Called Birdy”
“Elevated Causeway”
“Soft Royal Cha Cha”
“Charlotte” (animated)
“Close” (international)
“The halls of power” (documentary)
“Corsage” (international)
“DC League of Super Pets” (animated)
“Dead for a Dollar”
“Death on the Nile”
“Descendant” (documentary)
“Decision to leave” (international)
“Devotion”
“Doctor Strange”
“Dog”
“Do not worry honey”
“Downton Abbey: A New Age”
“Elvis”
“Emancipation”
“Emergency”
“emily”
“Emily the Criminal”
“Empire of Light”
“EO” (international)
“The Eternal Daughter”
“Everything everywhere, all at once”
“The Exiles” (documentary)
“The Fabelmans”
“Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets”
“Fire of love” (documentary)
“Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Struggle for Freedom” (documentary)
“Gabby Giffords won’t back down” (documentary)
“Gangubai Kathiawadi”
“Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“Good luck to you, Big Leo”
“Goodnight Oppy” (documentary)
“The Good Nurse”
“Best Beer Race Ever”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (animated)
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song” (documentary)
“Holy Spider” (international)
“Honk for Jesus, save your soul”
“Hunt”
“Hustle”
“In-Who” (animated)
“The inspection”
“Is it black enough for you?!?” (documentary film)
“Island of Hope”
“Jacir”
“Jackass Forever”
“The Janes” (documentary)
“The blues of a jazzman”
“Jurassic World: Dominion”
“Killing Me Softly With His Songs” (documentary)
“Lady Chatterly’s Lover”
“Last Film Show” (international)
“Last Flight Home” (documentary)
“Light Year” (animated)
“Living”
“Loren and Rosa”\
“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” (documentary)
“A love song”
“Luck” (animated)
“Mad God” (animated)
“A Man Called Otto”
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (animated)
“Marry me”
“Teacher”
“The menu”
“Minions: The Rise of Gru” (animated)
“Mr. Malcolm’s List”
“Mrs. Harris goes to Paris”
“Montana Story”
Moonage Daydream (documentary)
“My Father’s Dragon” (Animated)
“My police”
“Baby sister”
“Navalny” (documentary)
“Neptune Frost”
“Nitram”
“no bears”
“No”
“The Northerner”
“Nothing compares” (documentary)
“Nothing Lasts Forever” (documentary)
“On the Climb”
“One Good Morning”
“Costume”
“Light Blue Eyes”
“Pearl”
“Puss ‘N Boots: Last Wish” (animated)
“The quiet girl” (international)
“Raymond and Ray”
“Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story”
“Retrograde” (documentary)
“The Return of Tanya Tucker with Brandi Carlile” (documentary)
“Return to Seoul” (international)
“Riotsville, United States” (documentary)
“Roald Dahl’s Matilda”
“RRR”
“Sea Beast” (animated)
“Saint Omer” (international)
“Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (documentary)
“Second Chance” (documentary)
“Selena Gomez: My mind and I” (documentary)
“She said”
Sydney (documentary)
“Silent Twins”
“Mermaids” (documentary)
“The son”
“Energetic”
“Mr.” (documentary film)
“Strange World” (animated)
“Stutz” (documentary)
“The swimmers”
“Tar”
“Tell it like a woman”
“The Territory” (documentary)
“Three minutes: an elongation” (documentary)
“Thirteen Lives”
“Thor: Love and Thunder”
“Three thousand years of longing”
“Until”
“To Leslie”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Tree of Life: Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack” (Documentary)
“Triangle of Sadness”
“Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” (documentary)
“Turning Red” (animated)
“2020: Chaos and Hope”
“The unbearable weight of massive talent”
“The UnRedacted (Jihad Rehab)” (documentary)
“Revenge”
“The voice of dust and ashes” (documentary)
“Wake”
“We are Art” (documentary)
“Wendell and Wild” (animated)
“The whale”
“Where the locusts sing”
“White noise”
“Wildcat” (documentary)
“The King Woman”
“Women Talking”
“The wonder”
“X”
“You will not be alone”
