Plot Thickens Over Matt Damon-Ben Affleck Documentary Ruled Ineligible For Oscars; Filmmakers Insist It Did Qualify, But Academy Claims Otherwise
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: New developments in the Oscar controversy surrounding Kiss the Future, the Matt Damon–Ben Affleck documentary that the Motion Picture Academy ruled ineligible for awards consideration.
As Deadline reported Monday, the Academy denied an appeal from producers Damon, Affleck and Sarah Anthony, who argued the film’s wide release – at 139 AMC cinemas including screens in the qualifying markets of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Atlanta – should make it Oscar-eligible.
The documentary branch executive committee countered that Kiss the Future only played twice a day in a qualifying market, not three times a day as stipulated under Rule 12 of Oscar guidelines (read it here).
After our story posted, observers on social media commented that nothing in the rules said a film had to play on a single screen in a qualifying market; taking all the screens in qualifying markets collectively, Kiss the Future played much more than three times a day.
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