They start handing out Emmys next weekend with back-to-back Creative Arts ceremonies, followed on Monday, September 12 with the Primetime Emmys on NBC.
But even as the TV awards season still has a couple of weeks to go before becoming history, the Oscar season is officially getting underway.Of course that means the fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto kicking off the season that sets the plate for the Academy Awards, but it also means screener season is beginning.
Unfortunately for AMPAS members who loved to collect those DVD screeners to show off for their friends, that practice is kaput as the Academy officially went all digital last year and members now view movies through the Academy’s digital Screening Room.Today, the first batch of what we will label “awards contenders” hit the service for Oscar voters.
We call them “contenders” because their distributors are ponying up a fee of $12,500 (if the figure from last year sticks) just to have a shot at getting seen by the 10,000ish members who have digital access.Those eight titles are Netflix’s Hustle with Adam Sandler and Amazon movies including All the Old Knives and Master.
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