{"id":824630,"date":"2025-02-05T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/116-oscar-eligible-films-cant-win-best-film\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:12:09","slug":"116-oscar-eligible-films-cant-win-best-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/116-oscar-eligible-films-cant-win-best-film\/","title":{"rendered":"116 Oscar Eligible Films Can\u2019t Win Best Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-181249\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Article\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdndark.darkhorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/the-madame-web-reviews-are-in.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sony Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/cdndark.darkhorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/the-madame-web-reviews-are-in.jpg\" alt title=\"the-madame-web-reviews-are-in\"><\/a><figcaption>Sony Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Around 323 feature films are reportedly eligible for the upcoming Academy Awards this year, but 116 of them (36%) are NOT eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the news in an announcement today.  In some cases the filmmakers did not attempt to quality for the big award, with certain documentary, animated and international films fitting into this category.  <\/p>\n<p>In other cases, new eligibility rules require Best Picture candidates to meet certain benchmarks \u2013 some for their theatrical release strategy, some for diversity and inclusion in positions either during production or release of the films.<\/p>\n<p>As is though, none of the Best Picture contenders in guilds or other awards bodies appear to have been excluded from competing.<\/p>\n<p>Film titles excluded from Best Picture consideration this year include tentpole films like \u201cSonic the Hedgehog 3,\u201d \u201cBad Boys: Ride or Die,\u201d \u201cBoy Kills World,\u201d \u201cMadame Web\u201d and \u201cHarold and the Purple Crayon,\u201d along with Andrea Arnold\u2019s \u201cBird\u201d and Anna Kendrick\u2019s \u201cWoman of the Hour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The list of eligibility rules are up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/oscars\/rules-eligibility\">Oscars.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/oscar-qualifying-films-2025-not-eligible-best-picture\/\">The Wrap<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/116-oscar-eligible-films-cant-win-best-film\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Around 323 feature films are reportedly eligible for the upcoming Academy Awards this year, but 116 of them (36%) are NOT eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the news in an announcement today. In some cases the filmmakers did not attempt to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23690,3547],"tags":[6923,8932],"class_list":{"0":"post-824630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eligible","8":"category-oscar","9":"tag-eligible","10":"tag-oscar"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}