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Despite all of the «Potter» franchise's box - office magic (the films have grossed $ 7.7 billion in worldwide box office and sold more than 165 million DVDs) the spell has never worked on academy voters.

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The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.

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On a night where Hollywood could have made its biggest statement about #TimesUp and #MeToo, Academy Award voters played it predictably and disappointingly safe.

In our conversation last month at the DGA Theater in front of a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, she discusses why she was attracted to taking on the movie, her first theatrical feature since 2003's Monster.

With Academy balloting closing today it's last ditch stand time for nominees, who've suddenly popped up on every flat surface to remind Academy voters of their existence.

«Birdman,» on the other hand, flatters the creative process, and this is always popular with Academy voters.

Oscar campaigning is in full swing and Hugh Jackman is on the cover of Variety, a favourite read of Academy voters.

The Academy frequently likes its Britpics chirpy and digestible, and «Made in Dagenham» (already retitled from its original, less awards - friendly moniker «We Want Sex») boasts five words very dear to voters» hearts: «Based on a True Story.»

It looks like Academy voters put his past on trial, stemming back to a sexual assault charge dating back his days at Penn State.

The studios use screeners to help Academy voters and critics groups catch up on films they might have missed.

While BAFTA shares a small overlap of its voters with the motion picture academy, its effect on Oscar voting is thought to be minimal.

What It Could Win: The first trailer for Collateral Beauty makes it look like a weepy take on A Christmas Carol, but the movie has a dark side that might intrigue more than one Academy voter.

When the dust settled Tuesday morning after announcement of this year's Oscar nominees, it was clear that Academy Awards voters had diversity and inclusion on their minds.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

If not: «The Light That Never Fails» from Meru Lowdown: Going out on a limb here that the Academy music branch can't say no to the great track from The Weeknd just like they couldn't as Grammy award voters.

But it's possible that some Academy voters who missed the summer hit will make sure to catch Girls Trip on - demand (or on a screener) after seeing Haddish's comedic stylings on S.N.L. Haddish already seems like a lock for a Golden Globe nomination — given the show's separate categories for comedy performances — but this S.N.L. appearance could be the beginning of a very smart Oscar campaign as well.

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

That, of course, means that it will be included in next year's Oscar race, testing the very limits of Academy voter's memories and securing its spot on various bloggers «Top 10 Oscar - Worthy Films That Didn't Come Out in The Same Two Months Every Other Oscar - Worthy Film Does» lists.

Many pundits rely on what Academy voters are talking about but no one knows if that will pay off or not.

Brooklyn's score will only get in if the movie has some broad strength with Academy voters — the jury is still out on that.

With Jessica Chastain on hand, fresh off her back - to - back Oscar nominations, I could see this drawing massive appeal to Academy voters, fans of the fiery - haired thespian, and film critics from a wide variety of publications (who've been her biggest supporters, let's face it).

Whether all four could make it a full sweep remains to be seen; Academy voters from its 17 branches will decide on the 24 categories Feb. 20 — 27.

At a basic level, this implies two possible conclusions: either films with outstanding female lead performances actually aren't as good (on average) as films with outstanding male lead performances, or there's an unfair perception among Academy voters that this is the case.

Though Southpaw may not be the kind of movie that Academy voters will deliver accolades to, it's a masterful performance for Gyllenhaal, in a role originally intended for left - handed rapper Eminem (no joke), who breathes a great deal of life to a role that could easily have been deemed underwritten if left to someone who didn't add more to what had been on the written pages of the old - fashioned script.

History was on the side of those who thought Academy voters would prove too fuddy - duddy to appreciate Immortan Joe and his War Boys.

I wonder if this might go slightly to the left of what Oscar voters (and perhaps audiences) are used to, causing it to not quite be embraced as much as his previous works, but there's such talent on display here that I can't imagine the Academy completely ignoring it.

Given its timing on the awards calendar, Santa Barbara has an impact on the Oscar race, due to its local contingent of Academy voters and high - profile media coverage.

The purpoted beef between director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley aside, most of the controversy surrounding the Best Picture - winning «12 Years A Slave» has centered on audience's reactions to the film, both of Armond White and uneasy white Academy voters.

The winter holidays will be a very busy time for Academy voters, squeezing in time for screening of the films, ever since the nominations are going to be revealed five days prior on January 10th 2013.

Whether a movie about unemployment can succeed with Academy voters remains to be seen, but few other movies in the running this year can claim to have taken on an issue so intractable and relevant to so many people.

It's David Fincher's biggest hit and though the academy's more squeamish voters can't see the farce through the blood spatter, all those eyeballs on it count for something.

«Given the environment right now socially, you'd think [academy voters] would be more conscious,» said Gil Robertson IV of Los Angeles» African American Film Critics Assn. «There seems to be little thought or consideration on how «Selma» in particular really does provide an opportunity for people to have some real dialogue about race relations.

While I wouldn't go so far to suggest that connection is top of mind for most Academy voters, I do wonder about its potential effect on a voting body that tends to respond positively to films that ruminate or comment on the movies themselves, which this film does, in a roundabout way.

While some Academy voters are still clearly showing reluctance to embrace films that don't feature exclusively old white men puffing cigars, if last year's Moonlight victory taught us anything, it's that change is on the horizon, bitch.

Why: If you think of the writing categories as the ones where Academy voters give consolation prizes to films they like but don't want for Best Picture, then expect to see Jordan Peele on stage early in the evening, picking up the hardware for his feature debut as writer / director.

Desplat is much admired among Academy voters — though not as admired as Zimmer, who is on his 11th nomination, or Williams, on his 46th -LRB-!!).

Shame on you, Academy voters.

The 90th Academy Awards are still a while away, but with plenty of high quality movies already on voters» radars, now is the time for studios to start making moves to ensure that their films are given the recognition they deserve.

Aside from reminding Academy voters that they have yet to give Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar and maybe they should get on that, the recently released trailer for The Revenant promised a visually stunning historical adventure from both a director — Alejandro González Iñárritu — and a cinematographer — Emmanuel Lubezki — at the...

Granted, forgetting to thank «Creed» director Ryan Coogler was a big mistake, but overall he gave a funny and humble acceptance speech that likely warmed the heart of a lot of Academy voters (assuming he's even nominated on Thursday which is still a big if).

To shed that hex, Warner Bros. has splurged on a lavish campaign (it even included «For Your Consideration» billboards around Los Angeles) to persuade Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences voters that (like the final «The Lord of the Rings» movie) the finale of this fantasy mega-franchise deserves some nomination and trophy love.

When I remarked in a post yesterday that the upcoming awards season looks a little short on the high - profile biopic contenders so beloved of Academy voters, I had a feeling I was forgetting something obvious.

There should also be room in Academy voters» hearts for Seamus McGarvey, who previously picked up a Cinematography bid for lensing Wright's Atonement, and brings an equally elegant eye to the collaborators» third outing (McGarvey also served as DP on The Soloist).

But it's possible that the same bloc of voters that elevated Rylance — the academy's small, serious East Coast contingent — could go all in on Metcalf, a four - time Tony nominee who won that honor last year for her lead turn in the Broadway production of «A Doll's House, Part 2.»

Rush is a dud of a film that really stomps on whatever faith was left in Ron Howard's filmmaking virtues, but Brühl is reason enough to see it, and his nominations from SAG and BAFTA, whose memberships significantly overlap with those of the Academy of Motional Picture Arts and Sciences, prove that voters are.

Though the N.B.R. Awards Gala tends to diverge from the Oscars when it comes to winners, perhaps Gerwig will be making a similar speech on a much bigger stage just a couple months from now — provided Academy voters love Lady Bird as much as every industry gala does.

Even though, in replacing Jack Nicholson and Brad Pitt (who both were sort of iffy on the lead - supporting continuum) with Mark Wahlberg's middle finger and Jackie Earle Haley's little appendage, the Academy implicitly agreed with us, the no - small - parts - only - small - actors initiative will probably fail to move through committee if Oscar voters vote with where history has informed us their hearts lead them: lefty, global market agitprop.

When Voltage Pictures President Nicolas Chartier got a wrist - slap for openly appealing to Academy voters on behalf of his project The Hurt Locker (2010), he may have been «uninvited» to the Oscars, but he certainly proved himself to be the rare creative executive who really speaks his mind.

According to the press release, Mr. Chartier engaged in campaigning activities the Academy deemed a violation of their rules for «casting a negative or derogatory light on a competing film» in communications he e-mailed to Academy voters and other members of the motion picture industry.