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Peter Bart: Screeners Pay Their Final Visit As Producers Pray That Food & Swag Will Stoke Interest In Virtual Awards Season

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They fill the mailbox daily – the tightly packaged screeners that arrive like welcome anachronisms, some bearing familiar titles (Mank, Soul) but most as strangers (Wolfwalkers, Athlete A).

Their sheer abundance reminds us of the creative energy out there; the “out there,” however, seems lost in the mist. “We need festivals and parties and hype,” observes Nick Jarecki, whose fast-paced thriller Crisis opens in March, searching for hype (he won the Kodak Auteur Award).The well-oiled awards machine is churning out ballots, and the stars are hustling their wares, but it’s all an uphill climb.

The Academy reminds voters daily that its electronic screening room provides an excellent alternative to screeners, adding the Roku platform.

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