Oscars sked: Voters to ponder for extra week
Oscars schedule
July 27, 2005
While they rush to catch up with the onslaught of year-end film releases with Oscar aspirations, Academy voters will have one more week to mark their nomination ballots in 2006 than they did this year.
The 78th Annual Academy Awards are set to take place Sunday, March 5 -- one week later than they were held this year because the Academy didn't want to go head-to-head against the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics, which NBC will broadcast Feb. 26 from Turin, Italy.
That in turn has allowed the Academy to build an extra week into its 2006 balloting schedule by accommodating that week into the beginning of the balloting process.
For the 78th Oscars, nomination ballots will be mailed Thursday, Dec. 29, three days later than they were issued for the 77th Oscars, when they were sent out Monday, Dec. 27, 2004.
With most Academy members expected to receive their ballots after the Jan. 1 holiday, they will have three weeks to mark their nomination ballots, which are due back by 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21. This year, members had only two weeks to consider their choices after the Jan. 1 holiday because ballots were due Jan. 15.
The nominations will be announced a week later than they were announced last year, this time at 5:30 a.m. PST Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Final ballots will be mailed Wednesday, Feb. 8, and are due back at the Academy by Tuesday, Feb. 28.
The Academy's 2006 schedule raises the possibility that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s Golden Globe Awards, which will be handed out Sunday, Jan. 15, could have some impact on the Academy's nominating process because the Academy's ballots are not due until the following Saturday. This year, by contrast, the Academy's nominations ballots had to be returned by Jan. 15 and the Globes took place the following day, Jan. 16.
However, while Globe partisans like to argue that the Globe presentation influences Academy voting, Academy insiders tend to counter that most members don't wait until the last minute to mark their ballots and in fact return them to the Academy sooner rather than later, in which case the Globes wouldn't become a factor.
As the 2006 awards calendar begins to take shape, the weekend of Jan. 25-26 is approaching awards glut. On Saturday, Jan. 28, the DGA will hold its awards dinner. The next day, Sunday, Jan. 29, SAG will hand out its awards at the 12th annual SAG Awards, broadcast live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles by TNT and TBS.
That same weekend, the Sundance Film Festival will hold its annual awards ceremony Saturday, Jan. 28, which could force some of the indie film crowd and the specialty division heads to decide between attending events in Park City or Los Angeles.
Then on Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Academy will move front and center with its daybreak nomination announcements.
Other awards events on the docket include the Producers Guild of America's awards dinner on Sunday, Jan. 22; the Academy's nominees' luncheon (Monday, Feb. 19); the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Dinner (Saturday, Feb. 18); and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Orange British Academy Film Awards (Sunday, Feb. 19).
The 78th Annual Academy Awards are set to take place Sunday, March 5 -- one week later than they were held this year because the Academy didn't want to go head-to-head against the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics, which NBC will broadcast Feb. 26 from Turin, Italy.
That in turn has allowed the Academy to build an extra week into its 2006 balloting schedule by accommodating that week into the beginning of the balloting process.
For the 78th Oscars, nomination ballots will be mailed Thursday, Dec. 29, three days later than they were issued for the 77th Oscars, when they were sent out Monday, Dec. 27, 2004.
With most Academy members expected to receive their ballots after the Jan. 1 holiday, they will have three weeks to mark their nomination ballots, which are due back by 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21. This year, members had only two weeks to consider their choices after the Jan. 1 holiday because ballots were due Jan. 15.
The nominations will be announced a week later than they were announced last year, this time at 5:30 a.m. PST Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Final ballots will be mailed Wednesday, Feb. 8, and are due back at the Academy by Tuesday, Feb. 28.
The Academy's 2006 schedule raises the possibility that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s Golden Globe Awards, which will be handed out Sunday, Jan. 15, could have some impact on the Academy's nominating process because the Academy's ballots are not due until the following Saturday. This year, by contrast, the Academy's nominations ballots had to be returned by Jan. 15 and the Globes took place the following day, Jan. 16.
However, while Globe partisans like to argue that the Globe presentation influences Academy voting, Academy insiders tend to counter that most members don't wait until the last minute to mark their ballots and in fact return them to the Academy sooner rather than later, in which case the Globes wouldn't become a factor.
As the 2006 awards calendar begins to take shape, the weekend of Jan. 25-26 is approaching awards glut. On Saturday, Jan. 28, the DGA will hold its awards dinner. The next day, Sunday, Jan. 29, SAG will hand out its awards at the 12th annual SAG Awards, broadcast live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles by TNT and TBS.
That same weekend, the Sundance Film Festival will hold its annual awards ceremony Saturday, Jan. 28, which could force some of the indie film crowd and the specialty division heads to decide between attending events in Park City or Los Angeles.
Then on Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Academy will move front and center with its daybreak nomination announcements.
Other awards events on the docket include the Producers Guild of America's awards dinner on Sunday, Jan. 22; the Academy's nominees' luncheon (Monday, Feb. 19); the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Dinner (Saturday, Feb. 18); and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Orange British Academy Film Awards (Sunday, Feb. 19).
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