In the words of George Carlin, it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it! The Academy is to axe its exclusive screenings of Oscar nominated films for members.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has always put on exclusive showings of award contenders in its screening rooms in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and London.
Not anymore. But don’t cry too hard for those poor members. They are no longer doing it because the Academy introduced, a decade ago, an exclusive and members only streaming service to carry the same.
Keep paying for Netflix, plebs!
Post-nomination screenings apparently cost thousands of dollars per session to put on and were being attended by… wait for it… just five members on average per screening.
So now they are being axed. Use it or lose it, elites!
Members were notified in January.
Now that they are being stopped, there has apparently been some grumbling among members who never went to them in the first place. Maybe they are worried about going to the movie theater among the poors, like some kind of normo.
