The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Scienes has just made rule and eligibility changes in the acting and International Film categories that have to rank with the most significant in Oscars nearly 100 year history.
From this point on in the acting categories, both lead and supporting, actors can now be nominated for more than one performance in those individual categories if those performances place in the top five votes. In other words if Leonardo Di Caprio has two great lead performances in the same year, he can now be nominated for both for Best Actor. The same would apply if he also had multiple supporting performances. Previously, unlike every other category, if an actor had movies that gained two or even three of the top five votes only the performance that got the most votes would be eligible. The Academy’s Board Of Governors has now thrown that stipulation out the window to match the way other categories have always operated. In 2000 Steven Soderbergh was nominated for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic for Best Director, winning for the latter. The same thing can now happen in acting categories. If an actor has an extremely prolific year might we even see someone swallow up three of the five nominations? Probably won’t happen but it is now possible.
Another seismic , and long overdue change is also coming to the International Film (formerly Foreign Language Film) category where there are now two ways to submit a movie for consideration. Previously your film had to be the official selection chosen by the country or region, but now a non-English language film can be submitted simply by winning a qualifying award at an international film festival. Those festivals and specific awards qualifying this year will be Berlin (Golden Bear), Busan (Best Film Award), Cannes (Palme d’Or), Sundance (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize), Toronto (Platform Award, and Venice (Golden Lion). One recent example would be that France’s Anatomy Of A Fall which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes but was not submitted to Oscars by France would now be eligible as well as the country’s official entry.
On top of this truly significant change, there is another equally eye popping change in that the International Feature Film category will now be credited as the nominee rather than country or region as has always been the case The award will continue to be accepted by the director on behalf of the whole creative team but the director’s name will now be on the statuette plaque. It never was before and AMPAS didn’t officially count International Film wins in the official count of how many Oscars that director may have won in other categories. Oscar only counted the wins for individual countries. Ever.
And wait there is more! AMPAS has jumped into the AI conversation in an official way, now clearly stating that only performances “demonstrably performed by humans” will be eligible in acting categoreies, and the same goes in writing categories which have been codified to say only human authored screenplays are eligible.
Big day for the Academy and for Oscar. All the changes including tweaks to campaign rules are listed below, as well as submission deadlines and key dates for the 99th Annual Academy Awards.
Substantive awards rules changes include:
Awards submission deadlines and additional key dates are as follows:
Thursday, August 13, 2026: First submission deadline for Animated Short Film, Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film and Live Action Short Film categories
Thursday, September 17, 2026: First submission deadline for General Entry categories, Animated Feature Film, Best Picture and Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry (RAISE) form
Wednesday, September 30, 2026: Submission deadline for International Feature Film
Thursday, October 8, 2026: Final submission deadline for Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Film and Live Action Short Film categories
Wednesday, October 14, 2026: Submission deadline for Music (Original Song)
Thursday, October 15, 2026: Final submission deadline for Documentary Feature Film
Wednesday, November 4, 2026: Submission deadline for Music (Original Score)
Thursday, November 12, 2026: Final submission deadline for General Entry categories, Animated Feature Film, Best Picture and Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry (RAISE) form
January 8 – 10, 2027: Casting, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound and Visual Effects voting events (bake-offs)
The Academy also updated and clarified formatting and language in the campaign promotional regulations for the 99th Oscars. The campaign promotional regulations specify how motion picture companies and individuals directly associated with Oscars-eligible motion pictures may promote such motion pictures, achievements and performances to Academy members and how Academy members may promote Oscars-eligible motion pictures, achievements and performances.
Substantive changes to the campaign promotional regulations include:
Awards Rules are formulated by the Awards Committee based on recommendations by Branch Executive Committees, the International Feature Film Executive Committee, and the Scientific and Technical Awards Executive Committee, and are subject to final approval by the Board of Governors.
All rules, regulations and dates for the 99th Academy Awards are subject to change.
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