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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Acadamy Award nominations
Message-ID: <3917@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 13:08:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 13:08:25 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Feb-85 05:35:23 EST
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

The rules on eligibility for Acadamy Awards say that a film must play either
one or two weeks (I think two) in a theater in Los Angeles during calendar
year 1984 to be eligible for that year.  The result is that a lot of films
play two weeks in December in Los Angeles (and sometimes New York, perhaps
to avoid offending the critics out there) so that they will be eligible.
This year, this was done for "1984", "Mass Appeal" (which didn't really open
until early February), "Birdy", and, I think, "Mrs. Soffel".  The idea is that
the studio thinks that the films are of Acadamy Award caliber, but also thinks
that they'll go belly up in the very competetive Christmas market.  This way,
they retain eligibility, but don't have to spend much on advertising and don't
risk having a serious film get blown away by Christmas fluff.
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        			Peter Reiher
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