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Academy Awards Rules for Documentary Categories, Study notes of English

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The rules and regulations for submitting documentary films for consideration in the 91st academy awards, including eligibility requirements, submission process, and voting procedures for both documentary feature and documentary short subject categories.

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91st ACADEMY AWARDS
SPECIAL RULES FOR THE DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
I. DEFINITION
An eligible documentary film is defined as a theatrically released nonfiction motion picture dealing
creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be
photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation,
stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.
II. CATEGORIES
The Documentary awards are divided into two categories:
A. Documentary Feature – motion pictures with a running time of more than 40 minutes, and
B. Documentary Short Subject – motion pictures with a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all
credits.
III. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
See Feature Rules
IV. DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
A. Eligibility
1. To be eligible for 91st Academy Awards consideration, a documentary short subject must
complete a seven-day commercial run in a theater in either Los Angeles County or the City of
New York, during the eligibility period and prior to public exhibition or distribution by any
nontheatrical means.
OR
2. The film must have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival, as specified in the
Documentary Short Subject Qualifying Festival List, regardless of any prior public exhibition or
distribution by nontheatrical means. Proof of the award must be submitted with the entry. The
Documentary Short Subject Qualifying Festival List is available at www.oscars.org or may be
obtained from the Academy.
OR
3. The film must have won a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal award in the Academy’s 2018 Student
Academy Awards competition in the Documentary category.
4. The eligibility period for documentary short subjects begins on September 1, 2017, and ends on
September 30, 2018. The completed online submission form and all other entry materials,
including the digital content delivery and DVDs, must be received by the Academy no later than
30 days after the end of the qualifying run or the festival award win. No submissions will be
accepted after 5 p.m. PT on Monday, October 1, 2018.
5. The qualifying run or festival award win must take place within two years of the motion picture’s
completion date. The picture must be submitted in the same Awards year in which it first
qualifies. Documentaries submitted for the 91st Academy Awards in any category will not be
eligible for consideration in subsequent Awards years in any category.
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9 1st ACADEMY AWARDS

SPECIAL RULES FOR THE DOCUMENTARY AWARDS

I. DEFINITION

An eligible documentary film is defined as a theatrically released nonfiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction. II. CATEGORIES The Documentary awards are divided into two categories: A. Documentary Feature – motion pictures with a running time of more than 40 minutes, and B. Documentary Short Subject – motion pictures with a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits. III. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE See Feature Rules IV. DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT A. Eligibility

  1. To be eligible for 91st Academy Awards consideration, a documentary short subject must complete a seven-day commercial run in a theater in either Los Angeles County or the City of New York, during the eligibility period and prior to public exhibition or distribution by any nontheatrical means. OR
  2. The film must have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival, as specified in the Documentary Short Subject Qualifying Festival List, regardless of any prior public exhibition or distribution by nontheatrical means. Proof of the award must be submitted with the entry. The Documentary Short Subject Qualifying Festival List is available at www.oscars.org or may be obtained from the Academy. OR
  3. The film must have won a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal award in the Academy’s 2018 Student Academy Awards competition in the Documentary category.
  4. The eligibility period for documentary short subjects begins on September 1, 2017 , and ends on September 30, 2018. The completed online submission form and all other entry materials, including the digital content delivery and DVDs, must be received by the Academy no later than 30 days after the end of the qualifying run or the festival award win. No submissions will be accepted after 5 p.m. PT on Monday, October 1, 2018.
  5. The qualifying run or festival award win must take place within two years of the motion picture’s completion date. The picture must be submitted in the same Awards year in which it first qualifies. Documentaries submitted for the 91st Academy Awards in any category will not be eligible for consideration in subsequent Awards years in any category.
  1. The picture must be exhibited using 35mm or 70mm film, or in a 24- or 48-frame progressive scan Digital Cinema format with a minimum projector resolution of 2048 by 1080 pixels, source image format conforming to ST 428-1:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master – Image Characteristics; image compression (if used) conforming to ISO/IEC 15444-1 (JPEG 2000); and image and sound files packaged as Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) in either “Interop” or “SMPTE DCP” formats. SMPTE DCP refers to SMPTE ST429-2 and related specifications. (Blu- ray format does not meet Digital Cinema requirements.) The audio in a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) is typically 5.1 or 7.1 channels of discrete audio. The minimum for a non-mono configuration of the audio shall be three channels as Left, Center, Right (a Left/Right configuration is not acceptable in a theatrical environment). The audio data shall be formatted in conformance with ST 428-2:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master – Audio Characteristics and ST 428-3:2006 D-Cinema Distribution Master – Audio Channel Mapping and Channel Labeling.
  2. Screenings in the qualifying run must occur at least once daily and begin between noon and 10 p.m. The motion picture must be exhibited for paid admission, and must be advertised during its run in a manner normal and customary to theatrical feature distribution practices.
  3. Works that are essentially promotional or instructional are not eligible, nor are works that are essentially unfiltered records of performances.
  4. Only individual documentary works are eligible. This excludes from consideration such works as:
    • multi-part or limited series,
    • episodes extracted from a larger series,
    • segments taken from a single “composite” program,
    • alternate versions of ineligible works, and
    • documentary short subjects created from materials substantially taken from or cut down from completed, publicly exhibited feature-length documentaries.
  5. The significant dialogue or narration must be in English, or the entry must have English-language subtitles.
  6. Films that, in any version, receive a nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution before their qualifying run as defined in Paragraph IV.A.1 above will not be eligible for Academy Awards consideration. Nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution includes but is not limited to:
    • Broadcast and cable television
    • PPV/VOD
    • DVD distribution
    • Internet transmission Up to ten percent of the running time of a film is allowed to be shown in a nontheatrical medium prior to the film’s commercial qualifying run. Films qualifying under Paragraph IV.A.2 or IV.A.3 above are exempted from this rule. B. Submission
  7. The producer or distributor of the film must register online at the Academy’s Awards Submissions site, submissions.oscars.org, and inform the Academy of the details of the film’s qualifying run before the run begins.
  8. Entrants (including non-U.S. entrants) must complete the online submission form and submit to