Hammond: 2013 Oscar Show Might Not Be Moving Earlier

EXCLUSIVE: With Monday evening’s Gotham Honours and Tuesday’s announcement from the Independent Spirit Award nominations and those who win from the NY Film Experts honours (more about that below), honours months are under way and that we are barely past Thanksgiving. It appears as though the growing season has become a literal hurry to judgment with tests beginning only now for many large game titles like the Girl Using The Dragon Tattoo, Very Noisy and extremely Close and Julia Roberts’s Within The Land of Bloodstream and Honey. But things could become much more hurried when the Academy of movement Picture Arts & Sciences really follows through on the much-spoken about intend to move the Academy awards earlier in 2013 up to per month. Probably the most-talked about date may be the last Sunday of The month of january that year — the 27th. The present season’s Academy awards is going to be on Sunday Feb 26th. But because it works out, I've found that a considerably earlier Oscarcast is extremely unlikely for 2013 as well as 2014. The current thinking is the fact that an early on Academy awards would thankfully shorten the lengthy honours season making them more competitive using the slew of movie honours implies that precede the Oscars starting with now’s occasions (The Nation's Board of Review will even announce their those who win on Thursday). Past Academy Leader Sid Ganis and current Leader Tom Sherak happen to be recognized to favor an early on honours date but sources near to the discussions let me know you will find complications. I checked all of this out after hearing that a minimum of two prominent Guilds that hands out their very own honours usually at the end of The month of january/early Feb were very concerned about the Academy making this type of major move and were advised a comment might be imminent. One guild source stated it might cause complete chaos with everybody’s agendas meaning there will be a pileup of honours and clearly each show such as the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, various Guild honours yet others would really attempt to move much earlier too. BAFTAchief executiveAmanda Berrywhose show airs two days prior to the Academy awards explained she'd certainly need to think about a move instead of following a Oscars. One guild professional angrily explained, “I don’t know why they'd do that. The Academy awards would be the Super Bowl. What do they need to be worried about? Everybody else, including us, are just like playoff games.” Really the actual Super Bowl is area of the problem. The Academy’s broadcast partner ABChas a say during these plans and I've been relayed through a really informed Acad source the The month of january 27, 2013 date continues to be eliminated and also the earliest they might go is Feb 3. Issue is that unexpectedly happens to function as the date from the Super Bowl so clearly that Sunday has gone out. Same with the following Sunday next to have an undisclosed reason meaning the first the show may go is Feb 17 and franklymy sources saythey will need to consider the need for moving it simply 1 week earlier than already. Academy voters are already done situps with an array of films to look at and losing that extra week might just 't be well worth the minimum return the Acad will get in upgrading a couple of days. The calendar for 2014 includes a much the same configuration and is definitely the identical scenario. Obviously they might always move the show to Monday where it broadcast for several years before landing around the a lot more desirable Sunday berth a couple of years back. Word is the fact that’s not seriously considered. Actually I've been told simply no decision is going to be made before the Academy has determined how you can implement online voting. Some experimentation is happening now but there won’t be considered a large test untillater early in the year. After they know they are able to securely result in the switch from paper to electronic ballots with anxiety about getting compromised or getting election totals uncovered by some enterprising college kid, they'll decide assuming the show can move. Obviously for the majority of the experts groups moving earlier isn't any large deal simply because they generally are the initial to determine the films. As well as bigger nearly 6,000 member Academy includes a hell of the time attempting to see virtually all of the challengers because it is, especially around the giant screen rather than via screeners that is exactly what the Academy is positively advocating people to complete. Another guild professional recommended that “moving earlier might have the unwanted effect of creating experts groups as well as their options much more influential because so many Oscar voters might have only time for you to watch what these groupsvote for.” That apparentlywas the bone-headed thinking this season when theNY Film Experts, under new leader John Anderson strongly increased their honours voting by two days so they may be first and beat the nation's Board of Review which normally have that first slot.Initially these were to possess chosen today however Scott Rudin said excitedly he couldn’tpossibly demonstrate to them The Lady With TheDragon Tattoo any sooner than today.Thinking about the film was directed bylast year’s NYFCC darling David Fincher they decided to move their election to Tuesday.However another Rudin film, one having a special NewYork connection, the publish 9/11 drama Very Noisy and IncrediblyClose wasn't ready over time and Warner Bros. needed to turn lower the NYFCC’s request to determine it earlycausing a war of wordsbetween the experts group and also the studio — also it won’t be looked at.Isn’t this early move a situation from the tail wagging your dog? Regardless of what honours the groupdoes or doesn’t give on Dragon Tattoo it’s a lose-lose situation with a few people worrying strongly. One explained,”If I'm able to’t see everything, I simply won’t election.” Possibly therein lies bad weather warning for that Academy’s early bird advocates too.