How is the Academy Award winning work chosen out of a number of movies?

Speaking of the Academy Awards, it is a worldwide film award also known as "Oscar" from Oscar statues awarded to winning works. A movie that explains such "What is the movie that shines at the Academy Awards?" Is published on YouTube.

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At the Academy Award in 2017, a total of 341 movies were eligible for selection.


In the movies of various genres such as mystery series, superhero stuff, love story and so on, divide it into 24 divisions such as a work award, a director award, a leading actor award, etc. From the viewpoint of "What is the best movie?" It decides. So, how are the prosperous Academy Award winning works selected?


The Academy Award has a history of over 90 years, and the movie chosen as the "Work Award" awarded to the most wonderful movie works is changing with the times.


The 1970s was a movie depicting crime and underground society, and in the 1980s, things that drew resistance and anti-systematic drama were popular.


However, in the decade from 2007 to 2017, a new "epidemic of the award of works" is born. It is "Film Festival".


All movies that won the award in the past ten years are works that won a prize for works at the famous world film festival.


Film festival is a festival of movies as its name suggests, people of all genres related to movies such as movie critics from general movie lovers, Hollywood stars as selection committee of Academy Awards, etc. will gather for several days.


And it gives an award to a wonderful movie.


Film festival is a very popular event and it is now open worldwide. Among them, there are five particularly important film festivals in the selection of the Academy Awards.


Firstly, it will be held in mid-January in Utah, USASundance Film Festival. The opening time is very cold due to winter, but it is very much participation of business people, such as distributor's buyer and manager of the right company, to draw a line with other film festivals.


People from all over the world visit the excavation of buried movie that other movie officials have not found yet. in recent years"I'm six years old until I become an adult.And ...


"session"Is a movie that was featured at the Sundance Film Festival and received attention.


The second one is "Cannes International Film Festival"is. It is one of the most famous film festivals in the world, this movie festival which we hear often in Japan.


Above a very historic film festival, judges are also characterized as prominent movie people and cultural people.


Films that have received high acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival are admired all over the world.


From August to September, three big film festivals are held in succession. "Venice International Film Festival"Telluride Film Festival"Toronto International Film Festival"There are three. This period is exactly the festival season.


The Venetian International Film Festival is the world's oldest film festival. Not only as a place for the seller to evaluate the movie ......


Just saying "I sent at the Venice International Film Festival" will be a big publicity.


"Telluride Film Festival" may be a little more familiar film festival than the Venice International Film Festival.


In recent years "half fish" and the human love painted "Shape of WaterAnd ...


"Lady Bird"Famous works such as" I was exhibited "were exhibited.


"Toronto International Film Festival" will be held in Toronto, Canada's largest city.


Not only about more than 30,000 movie people gathering ......


I also visit Toronto for many movie lovers.


In 2016 there were as many as 480,000 visitors.


It is a film festival that can be said to be an outpost fight, which is expected to increase for the Academy Awards.


If it says whether this is all related to the Academy Awards, it is not so.


Comments by newspapers and magazines, etc. become important elements as much as film festival. The same goes for movie lovers.


in recent years"Mad Max Max's Angry Death Road"Is proud of the explosive popularity among movie lovers, the Academy Award nominated 10 divisions, and achieved 6 crowns. The selection of the Academy Awards seems to be comprehensively judged including such information.


The Academy Awards play a major role in the promotion of movies, but there are two places that trigger advertisements.


The stage when the first one was nominated.


Many movies are hoped that they will be nominated for the Academy Awards first and an appeal battle will be held.


The second one is, of course, the stage of winning Oscar.


When a movie is talked about being nominated, it often happens that the limelight hits the movie once the boom has calmed down.


"The Academy Award in 2016 was nominated in 6 categories"LION / Lion - 25 years old now -」Was initially captured as a story that the boy looks for the past ... ...


By the time Prince Trump is nominated for an immigration ban, he was nominated for the Academy Award, and he took the spotlight as a "story of immigrants".


In the Academy Awards, sometimes voting reflecting the politics of the times is done.


The Academy Award Selection Committee is mainly about Hollywood, about 8000 people.


Selection committee members are divided into 17 specialized genres in the field concerned, and it is necessary to meet certain conditions in order to become selection committee members.


For example, a film director must supervise more than two films for at least the past ten years.


The selection committee will be given only the voting rights for the division related to his special genre ... ...


Only the "work prize" will be given voting rights to all the selection committee members.


So, what is the standard for movies to be nominated for "work prize"?


To be nominated, more than 5 percent of the selection committee members over 8000 must vote. And even after having been nominated, a longer way is waiting for Oscar to be elected.


By voting by each department, the Oscar will be selected as the movie which got the most votes among the nominees ... ...


Only "work prize" is different.


The method called "preferential balloting" is adopted as the voting system of "work prize".


First of all, the selection committee votes and ranks all the nominated works.


If there were no works that acquired 50 percent or more of votes at that point, the selection committee who voted for the excluded work excluded the work with the lowest ranking and voted for one of the remaining works.


If more than half of the works are not displayed at the time, works with the second lowest number of votes will be excluded, and the selection committee who voted for the excluded work will re-vote. This is repeated, and Oscar will be decided at the time when the majority winning work comes out.


And it was announced at the awards ceremony ... ...


The winner will give a message of joy. Thus the winning work of the Academy Awards has been chosen.


In addition, the Academy Award in 2018 will be presented at the award ceremony on Sunday, 4th (Sunday) of the local time, and movies will be announced with the crown of Oscar. The work prize is a dark fantasy "The Shape of Water" depicting love between different races, "Drawing a drama that wakes up in a rural American town"Three billboard"Is regarded as a promising candidate.