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best picture nominations and final winners in most categories are determined by vote of the entire membership. Beside the 24 categories
of regular award, there are also special awards and honorary awards, which
. Special awards and honorary awards are given for outstanding and
extraordinary achievements that are not recognized within the category structure of the Academy Award.
4. Academy Members
The AMPAS was formed in 1927 by 36 of the most prominent people in the film industry. These people are known as
Board of Governors. The first president of AMPAS was Sr. Douglas Fairbanks, who was an actor. To meet the excellence standard of film
industry, the AMPAS needs a voting board of which members are the most gifted and skilled people in their field in order to decide which
film or person deserves to accept the award. The voting board was later known as the Academy. All
members must be invited to join the Academy and the invitation comes from the Board of Governors. Although winning an Academy
Award usually results in an invitation, membership of the Academy is not an automatic. Membership can be achieved by applying proposal
to the AMPAS. A member may submit a name based on other significant contributions to the field of motion pictures. New
membership proposals are considered annually.
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Academy membership is divided into 15 branches, representing different disciplines in motion pictures, for instance,
actors, actress, directors, producers, film editing, composers, etc. Members may not belong to more than one branch. When a person,
who has not been a member yet, is nominated in more than one category in a single year resulting in an invitation from more than one
branch, shehe must choose which branch when shehe accepts the membership. Members whose discipline is not mentioned, or outside
of the branches, may belong
5. Nominations
The AMPAS also made Rules that have to be obeyed by a film or person, to be part of Annual Academy Award. According to
Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Award Rules, a film has to be opened in previous calendar year from midnight at the start of
January I to midnight at the end of December 31 in Los Angeles County California, to qualify. Rule 2 states that a film must be
- for Short Subject Awards. It must also exist either on a 35 mm or 70
mm film print or on a 24 fps or 48 fps progressive scan digital film print with a native resolution no lower that 1280 x 720
http:www.oscars.org80academyawardsrulesindex.html; April 14, 2007, 03.46 pm.
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The members can only nominate those in their specified branch, f
while all the members may submit nominees for Best Picture. The winners are determined by a second vote in which all members are
then allowed to vote in most categories.
6. The Award
