For Academy voters, it’s time to get serious about watching movies.
But do they have access to all the movies they should see before voting starts on December 12 (for the 10 shortlisted categories) or January 12 (for the rest of the categories)? Not exactly, at least not on the Academy Screening Room, the members-only online platform that has become the main way studios present their movies to Oscar voters.
Those voters can currently see “The Banshees of Inisherin” in the screening room, but not “The Fabelmans.” “Tár” is available to them, but “Women Talking” is not. Yes to “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” but not to “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” or “The Whale.”
After a new batch of nearly two dozen movies were added on Tuesday night of Thanksgiving week, there were 119 movies available on the Academy Screening Room, a secure online platform for viewing the Oscars that can only be accessed by access members. But of the 27 films that received votes predicting Best Picture nominations on the Gold Derby website, only 10 were in the ASR.
New movies are typically added every Friday, so that number could change on Black Friday, unless Tuesday’s unusual batch is the only addition this week. (And by the way, the Academy Screening Room site says it has 121 films, but that number includes an “Explain the Vote” video and a two-minute speech to join the international film committee.)
For years, Thanksgiving has served as a kind of unofficial deadline for studios with movies in the awards race. Daily packs of DVD screens would arrive in the homes of Academy and Guild voters in the days leading up to the holidays, with studios and activists clearly thinking that these film professionals would be home and perhaps take a break. break over the long weekend, so it would be a good time to give them lots of movies to watch.
The screeners are still being sent to some union voters and critics, who in recent days have received DVDs of “The Fabelmans,” “Mujeres que hablando,” “She Said,” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” among others. But streaming links have for the most part taken their place, and it’s now against AMPAS rules to send DVDs to Academy voters, whose main way of watching competing movies has become ASR (although one would like to think they all go to screenings, too).
But the screening room isn’t free: the Academy $20,000 to present a film there, with a price discount available for low-budget films. (That’s cheaper, they say, than producing and mailing screening DVDs to 10,000 members or 9,000-plus voters.) those categories is published automatically.
Among the top Oscar contenders, movies that are available to members include “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tar,” “Elvis,” “The Woman King ” “The son”, “Aftersun” and “Decision to leave”.
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” which has yet to screen to any voters, is understandably absent from the screening room, as is Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” which is just starting to screen but is clearly designed to be watched. on a big screen. There are also a few movies currently missing from theaters: “The Fabelmans,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Glass Onion,” “She She Said,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” and “Till.”
Among the strong awards contenders not yet in theaters, Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” and Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” have yet to appear in the screening room, and neither “Triangle”. of sadness”, “Living” and “White noise”. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bard, False Chronicle of a Few Truths” is in the separate screening room dedicated to the Best International Feature Film category but not in the main room, while another of Netflix’s international contenders, “All quiet on the Western Front”, ” is in both.
Documentaries make up a remarkable 35 of ASR’s 119 films, while animated features make up another 10 and entries in the international race occupy nine places. (Given the recent track record of international films in major Oscar categories, that makes sense.)
Here are the 100 films currently in the Academy Screening Room:
Reply (documentary)
“After the sun”
“All quiet on the western front” (international)
“Everything That Breathes” (documentary)
“All the old knives”
“Amsterdam”
“Argentina, 1985” (international)
“Time of Armageddon”
“Athena”
“The Automaton” (documentary)
“Bad Boys” (animated)
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Batman”
“Drink” (documentary)
Bitterbrush (documentary)
“Blond”
“Rip”
Brian and Carlos
“Brothers”
“Bully”
“Call Jane”
“Catherine Called Birdy”
“Soft Royal Cha Cha”
“Charlotte” (animated)
“Close” (international)
“The halls of power” (documentary)
“Corsage” (international)
“DC League of Super Pets” (animated)
“Descendant” (documentary)
“Decision to leave” (international)
“Doctor Strange”
“Dog”
“Do not worry honey”
“Downton Abbey: A New Age”
“Elvis”
“Emergency”
“emily”
“Emily the Criminal”
“Everything everywhere, all at once”
“The Exiles” (documentary)
“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)
“Good luck to you, Big Leo”
“Goodnight Oppy” (documentary)
“The Good Nurse”
“Best Beer Race Ever”
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song” (documentary)
“Holy Spider” (international)
“Hustle”
“In-Who” (animated)
“The inspection”
“Is it black enough for you?!?” (documentary film)
“Jacir”
“The Janes” (documentary)
“The blues of a jazzman”
“Killing Me Softly With His Songs” (documentary)
“Lady Chatterly’s Lover”
“Last Flight Home” (documentary)
“Light Year” (animated)
“Loren and Rose”
“Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” (documentary)
“A love song”
“Luck” (animated)
“Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (animated)
“Marry me”
“Teacher”
“Mr. Malcolm’s List”
“Mrs. Harris goes to Paris”
“Montana Story”
Moonage Daydream (documentary)
“My Father’s Dragon”
“My police”
“Navalny” (documentary)
“Nitram”
“Nope”
“The Northerner”
“Nothing compares” (documentary)
“Nothing Lasts Forever” (documentary)
“Costume”
“Pearl”
“The quiet girl” (international)
“Retrograde” (documentary)
“The Return of Tanya Tucker with Brandi Carlile” (documentary)
“Return to Seoul” (international)
“Riotsville, United States” (documentary)
“Sea Beast” (animated)
“Saint Omer” (international)
“Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (documentary)
“Second Chance” (documentary)
“Selena Gomez: My mind and I” (documentary)
Sydney (documentary)
“Mermaids” (documentary)
“The son”
“Mr.” (documentary film)
“Stutz” (documentary)
“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”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” (documentary)
“Turning Red” (animated)
“The unbearable weight of massive talent”
“Revenge”
“The voice of dust and ashes” (documentary)
“Wake up”
“We are Art” (documentary)
“Wendell and Wild” (animated)
“Where the locusts sing”
“The King Woman”
“The wonder”
“X”
“You will not be alone”