Academy CEO Bill Kramer on the New and Improved (?) Oscars
The Town with Matthew Belloni
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Are You Going to Let Andrea Risbro Attend Theatrical Eligibility?
Every year after the show, we revisit two things, theatrical eligibility and campaign regulations. What you just referred to is inspiring us to look at those regulations in a much more rigorous way. I want them written in such a way that a layperson who has a brand new film, first film, never promoted a film before can read this and understand what's okay and what's not okay. If Andrea Risbro wins, there will be a gasp like nobody has ever heard. The gas around the world. But because weirdly, she and her manager and her friends have gone silent during the second phase of the campaign after this stuff kind of blew up.
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