Cathy Schulman Guest Column: Lack Of Names In Thursday’s Best Picture Oscar Noms Is Symptom Of Much Larger Problem
deadline.comEd,. Note: Last night Deadline noted how half of the ten Best Picture nominees announced Thursday did not name the producers who’ll be vying for the last Oscar of the night.
We were told that the makers of the films Emilia Perez, Nickel Boys, I’m Still Here, The Substance and The Brutalist did not submit to the Producers Guild of America‘s credit vetting system in time enough to be included in the globally televised shout out.
Cathy Schulman, a film and television producer and a founding member of Producers United, has been through the credit battle gauntlet and wound up holding the Best Picture Oscar for Crash.
She believes that the failure to mark the producers who actually make the movies in a more timely fashion marginalizes the whole breed.
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