The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is adding new rules for movies to qualify for Best Picture.

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New Rules for the Oscars Best Picture Award

The Academy of motion pictures, Arts and Sciences is adding new rules for movies to qualify for best picture going into effect for the 2025 ceremony for a movie to qualify for best picture and now must expand a theatrical run for seven days and 10 of the top 50 US markets. Now, if a film is released later in the year, the director must submit plans to the Academy for verification, the new to come as the Academy continues to stress its belief that theatrical releases are crucial, very critical to Hollywood's success. And this is really gonna hurt a lot of those streaming platforms. They say, oh, I'm just gonna release it in one market and that should be good to qualify. But no, now it has to be a lot more than that. Yeah, this is really sort of targeted to Netflix who doesn't like to release their films at all in theaters. But we know they desperately have wanted to get the best picture a winner for some time.