Who votes?
Oscar. Are 6,404 members of the Academy Awards, but how should I do to be an academic?
They are 6,404. For the most part live in the Los Angeles, and some in northern California, New York and London. They are, by a small majority, men. Their average age is fifty-seven. Rupert Murdoch is one of them, as well as Pedro Almodóvar and Sasha Baron Cohen. George Lucas, Woody Allen and Dwayne Johnson, however, are not. On Sunday announced to an audience of over thirty million people the results of a secret ballot that will determine the course of many careers.
It is, of course, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group of professionals in the entertainment industry responsible for delivering the Oscars every year. The headquarters of the Academy is a mirrored glass structure located on Wilshire Boulevard, which suggests that the entity does not like to reveal much about its inner workings. Enter by invitation only, for what we need the sponsorship of two members and the approval of a board of governors. Once you enter, you are a member for life, something that critics of the organization used to present an image of elderly too busy with their oxygen tanks to think about their vote. When Henry Fonda and James Garner admitted that their wives were voting for them, a scandal erupted.
There is also the case of Dolores Hart, the actress who kissed Elvis Presley in Loving You, 1957, after which he retired and became a Catholic nun of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Today the Mother Dolores is 72 and still a member of the Academy. Each year the Academy will send copies of the nominated films, which makes it the only nun who rate the work of Quentin Tarantino.
The Academy consists of fifteen branches, of which the largest and most powerful group in terms of voting is to the actors, which consists of 1,205 members, 22% of the total. Are you guaranteed a victory to live to the limit last year for not being entirely convinced that the blue people of Avatar was actually acting. The following producers (452 members) and managers (437), which, along with advertisers (368), said Ann Thompson, a columnist for Indiewire website, tend to "a little more conventional, to movies like Milagros unexpected rules of life or Chocolate. They are the group that Harvey Weinstein knows how to talk. "Finally there are the various trades, sound effects, costumes, etc .- as they descend into the credits have to be mostly men. Thompson calls the "carnivores" and like the solid and grand narratives of the kind of Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan and Temple of steel, to the Origin. It is a large group, and that in 2006 he secured a victory and rejected Cuts Ang Lee's gay drama Brokeback Mountain. This year reduced to a minimum nominations My family, Lisa Cholodenko gay drama. "Carnivores are the reason that Annette Bening is losing," says Jeffrey Wells, who runs the website Hollywood Elsewhere.
In recent years, the Academy is to streamline the membership process for younger players and eliminated the traditional requirement of three film credits to allow, for example, the entry of Dakota Fanning in 2006. Have also begun to announce new additions every year, including Michelle Williams, James Franco, Michael Cera, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Seth Rogen.
At the same time, the Academy seeks to maintain its number of members in the six thousand after a sharp rise in 2003, which means that the only thing that can lead to new revenue is the death of current members, and the quickest way be at the top of the invitation list is a nomination. "The Academy tends to change," says Thompson. Jon Landau, who produced the Titanic, not come until after Avatar. This is the type that produced the Titanic! The truth is that it is very difficult to enter. "Moreover, the anonymity which surrounds the Academy is a breeding ground for all kinds of pride and prejudice. Anyway, whether or curse on Sunday to hold their elections, we must bear in mind that the average voter is not a reader of Cahiers du Cinéma and an old man falls asleep and gets on your shirt with the soup. Most likely to be fans of Godard with children.
