Final Emmy Voting In Progress As Opening Shots Of Oscar Season Are Fired – Notes On The Season
deadline.comA column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Emmy voting has begun! Oscar season has begun!
What a weekend! It appears to be the battle of the Academy viewing portals as final Emmy voting begins and the Television Academy is not only offering the digital ballot to the 20,000+ eligible voting members, but also a corresponding link to videos of the shows they are being asked to consider.
Meanwhile the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has opened their digital viewing portal for Oscar season which kicks off in earnest in a few days at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto (but really is already well in progress thanks to “Barbenheimer”).
More on the latter in a beat, but first…. Although I certainly didn’t have to be told voting was beginning (ballots are due back by 10pm PT August 28) as I answered the door Thursday morning to receive an FYC pie from Baking It (although it didn’t specify if Emmy nominated hosts Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph had cooked it themselves), I have to really congratulate the TV Academy and their digital savvy voting system.
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