Oscar 2023: Hollywood Academy restores requirements to opt for a post-pandemic statuette

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to restore the requirements to qualify for the Oscar for its next edition, after the remission of the pandemic, the organization reported in a statement on Wednesday.

According to this resolution agreed by the Board of Governors of said institution, all the films that aspire to get a statuette next year must have been released before December 31, 2022, both in theaters and on digital platforms.

In the second case, the films released in streaming that want to enter the race for the 2023 Oscars must have had a commercial distribution of seven consecutive days in physical theaters, with at least three screenings per day.

With the closure of theaters in Los Angeles County (USA) in mid-March 2020 due to the pandemic, the Academy modified its calendar and allowed in the last two editions the candidacy of productions released only via streaming and available during 60 days after its launch.

The Hollywood Academy explained in its statement that the “return to normality” has brought with it an increase in the number of metropolitan areas in which a film can be released who covets the statuette.

Traditionally, only those films exhibited in theaters in Los Angeles County were counted for this requirement, but since this year those presented in the theaters of the metropolitan area of ​​the San Francisco Bay or in the cities of New York, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta.