The Academy Award is amending its rules about the number of producers allowed for best picture nominees and winners.
Washington, June 14 : The Academy Award is amending its rules about the number of producers allowed for best picture nominees and winners.
After controversies over a limit on how many producers may be nominated for a best picture Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on June 13 that it had modified the rules to allow for more than three nominees.
In its announcement, the Academy restated that only "three or fewer producers who have performed the major portion of the producing functions" are qualified to be nominated for best picture, but now there's an exception.
The board approved the producers branch executive committee's proposal that, in an exceptional and extraordinary circumstance, an additional qualified producer can be a nominee.
"The committee and the governors believe strongly that it's very important to have a limit on the number of producers who can be nominated and potentially receive an Oscar statuette," Variety quoted Academy president Sid Ganis, as saying.
"But we also recognize that a truly unique situation could arise, and we want to have just enough flexibility to allow for that rare occurrence," Ganis added.
The Academy imposed a rule in 2000 that limited each nominated film to three credited producers who could claim statuettes.
That limit led to internal strife and lawsuits from people who felt they were denied credit and Oscars.
Other approved changes include the definition of an animated feature film, which must be at least 70 minutes long and use a frame-by-frame technique to create characters' movements, and that two production designers or set decorators could be nominated for their art-direction work on a given film.
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