AFI Awards Kicks Off Important Weekend As Final Oscar Voting Looms With Early Deadline – Notes On The Season

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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. We are getting down to the wire and this weekend could do much to clarify the true state of the Oscar race.

By the time the Super Bowl rolls around on Sunday we will have the results of Friday’s delayed Critics Choice Awards (ballots were in on January 10 before the ceremony was postponed twice due to the wildfires); the all-important PGA awards; the DGA awards and even the Annie Awards in a particularly strong year for feature animation.

And after all this, the Oscar ballots go live and voting begins for just one week on Tuesday, February 11, closing February 18.

That’s a very tight window between nominations and a final verdict. OSCAR VOTING ON SPEED DIAL I am not sure why the Academy needs 11 days to count the digital votes.