{"id":17806,"date":"2020-06-30T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heads-up-hollywood-agents-can-vote-for-oscars-now\/"},"modified":"2020-06-30T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T23:30:00","slug":"heads-up-hollywood-agents-can-vote-for-oscars-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heads-up-hollywood-agents-can-vote-for-oscars-now\/","title":{"rendered":"#Heads Up, Hollywood: Agents Can Vote For Oscars Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Heads Up, Hollywood: Agents Can Vote For Oscars Now<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Thanks to a new vote from the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science<\/a>s, agents \u2013 or \u201cartists representatives\u201d \u2013 are now eligible to cast votes for Academy Awards. Welcome to a new era of the Oscars.<\/span><\/p>\n

While some agents have been welcomed into the club of Academy membership over the past several decades, the right to cast votes was not included. Agents were \u201cassociate members\u201d who had access to the same screenings and screener disks that were available to full-fledged members, but they were not allowed to vote \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter relayed the new rule change, saying, \u201cHenceforth, all agents who are already members will be transferred to the members-at-large branch \u2014 members of which do not fall neatly under one of the Academy\u2019s 17 other branches, but do still get to vote \u2014 and all agents who are invited to become members in the future will automatically join that branch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Academy is supposed to announce its new member invitations later this week. THR speculates that one reason the Academy might have opened up voting to agents now is so the organization can \u201cfurther increase the number of women and people of color who are members as part of its recently-announced Academy Aperture 2025 initiative.\u201d That certainly seems like it would help them add some more diverse members to the ranks, and in theory, that should result in a better voting body that\u2019s more representative of the community.<\/p>\n

In theory.<\/p>\n

The immedia<\/a>te, knee-jerk reaction I\u2019ve seen to this news<\/a> is an outcry that agents will simply vote for their own clients, or the clients that are signed to their agency. That might very well happ<\/a>en, but I\u2019m honestly not well-versed enough in the anonymous voting processes of the Oscars to be able to definitively make that leap. As THR points out, the Academy has had a Marketing and Public Relations branch for years, so the same outcries could be leveled against the folks in that branch.<\/p>\n

I know there are plenty of more important things than the Oscars every year (especially as a pandemic rages around us), but rules like these can have real financial consequences for the people and movies<\/a> involved, so I totally understand while people who follow this stuff take it very seriously. While it\u2019s easy to cynically write off this move and assume that every agent is just going to vote for their own clients every time, I have to assume that the board of governors \u2013 which includes people like Steven Spielberg, Laura Dern, Larry Karaszewski, Ruth E. Carter, Michael Giacchino, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, John Knoll, and many more \u2013 took that very obvious observation into account when making their decision. If they\u2019re not worried about it, we probably shouldn\u2019t be, either.<\/p>\n

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