Final Emmy Voting In Progress As Opening Shots Of Oscar Season Are Fired – Notes On The Season
19.08.2023 - 00:59
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Emmy voting has begun! Oscar season has begun! What a weekend!
It appears to be the battle of the Academy viewing portals as final Emmy voting begins and the Television Academy is not only offering the digital ballot to the 20,000+ eligible voting members, but also a corresponding link to videos of the shows they are being asked to consider. Meanwhile the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has opened their digital viewing portal for Oscar season which kicks off in earnest in a few days at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto (but really is already well in progress thanks to “Barbenheimer”). More on the latter in a beat, but first….
Although I certainly didn’t have to be told voting was beginning (ballots are due back by 10pm PT August 28) as I answered the door Thursday morning to receive an FYC pie from Baking It (although it didn’t specify if Emmy nominated hosts Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph had cooked it themselves), I have to really congratulate the TV Academy and their digital savvy voting system. Yes, I am a longtime member but I have never seen such an easy and smooth operation when it comes to encouraging fair voting by making it so easy, with just a touch of the button really, to be able to watch all the nominated shows before casting your ballot. And rules are simple. You must have watched at least one episode of a series before voting in individual categories, and nominees are locked out of voting for themselves in the category in which they are personally nominated. Also, unlike Oscars, final voting is open only to members of individual branches for their votes, other than 15 program categories in which everyone gets a vote.
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