Academy confirms changes to Oscar documentaries process

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Academy has done it official: New manners in

the documentary category

will take outcome this year, dramatically changing a approach nonfiction films are judged for a 85th

Academy Awards

in 2013.

The many extreme change is a rejecting of a cabinet complement in a Documentary Feature category. Instead, all bend members will be authorised to opinion in a nominating process, and a whole Academy will be available to opinion for a winner, but a prior requirement that they see all 5 nominees in a melodramatic setting.

Oscar-winning executive

Michael Moore

), who spearheaded a pierce to change a system, discussed a new manners during length with TheWrap this week, and pronounced that they will move democracy to a routine and assistance stop a use of TV networks sensitively unctuous films into theaters for melodramatic runs before holding splashy radio "premieres."

The many argumentative of a new rules, that requires a examination in a New York Times or a Los Angeles Times, was designed to hindrance this process.

Under a prior system, a tiny series of electorate judged any film in a early rounds, radically giving any of those electorate a possibility to kill a film's chances.

The story of a documentary difficulty is full of intolerable snubs and omissions, from a disaster of "Hoop Dreams" to be nominated in 1994 to this year's shortlist, that did not embody a acclaimed documentaries "The Interrupters" (from a executive of "Hoop Dreams," Steve James), "Into a Abyss" (Werner Herzog) and "Tabloid" (Errol Morris).

Changes were also done in a Live Action Short and Animated Short categories.

(news.yahoo.com)