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How Many Votes Does It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2021? Here’s the category-by-category breakdown, from a high of 457 to a low of 27Steve Pond | March 4, 2021 @ 1:12 PM Last Updated: March 5, 2021 @ 12:11 PM AWARDS BEAT AMPAS The Academy has made a final count of its members leading into the beginning of Oscar nomination voting on Friday, with 9,300 members eligible to cast ballots for this year’s awards. That’s 62 fewer voters than in the count that was made in December, with the reduction due to some members retiring or moving to the non-voting emeritus classific...

2021-02-26T10:23:00+00:00 Ted Ty joins as global head of character animation, while Archie Donato relocates from LA to London to work on a “major new project” Dneg has appointed two new senior creative hires for its Feature Animation team. Ted Ty (pictured, left) joins as global head of character animation. He will be based in Montreal, while Archie Donato (pictured, right) relocates from LA to London as VFX supervisor on a “major new project”. Ty joins Dneg with 25 years of experience, having started his career at Walt Disney Animation where he worked as a 2D animator on animated f...

Hilaria Baldwin is apologizing for not being clearer about her cultural identity a month after social media users accused her of pretending to be Spanish even though she was born in Boston. After responding to the controversy in an Instagram video last December, Baldwin returned to the social media site on Friday to say she's spent the last month "listening, reflecting, and asking myself how I can learn and grow." Though she reiterated she was raised with both American and Spanish cultures and feels "a true sense of belonging to both," she added that "the way I’ve spoken about myself an...

Oscars Voters Top 9,000, and You Can Thank Agents for That An unusually large influx of new voters this year came from agents finally getting the right to voteSteve Pond | January 29, 2021 @ 1:49 PM Last Updated: February 5, 2021 @ 9:38 AM AWARDS BEAT Getty Images The last 12 months have been rough for Hollywood agents, with the pandemic drying up new film deals and the practice of packaging under fire. But when it comes to the Oscars, agents might be the new secret weapon. The proof is in the December 2020 branch count from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It sh...

One of Japan’s biggest cultural exports is gunning for big time accolades. With Demon Slayer, initially released in 2016, has seen itself rise up the charts becoming the second most voted manga after One Piece. Now, it has set its sights overseas. Demon Slayer is one of the 27 animated films to be submitted to the 93rd Academy Awards to...