Oscar® Screen Credits and Music Entry Forms Due December 3

Monday, December 3, is the deadline to submit official screen credits (OSC) and music submission forms to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 80th Academy Awards® consideration.

For a feature film to be considered for the 2007 Awards, the film’s distributor or producer must file an OSC form with the Academy by 5 p.m. PT on December 3. If the completed OSC form is not submitted by 5 p.m. PT, the feature’s title will not be included in the Reminder List of Eligible Releases – the list of 2007 films eligible for Academy Awards consideration.

OSC forms may be submitted online only, at http://aiwosc.oscars.org/aiwosc/. Information about submission and feature film eligibility can be obtained by contacting Credits Coordinator Howard Loberfeld at (310) 247-3000, ext. 113, or via email at hloberfeld@oscars.org.

For an achievement to be considered in the Original Score, Original Song and Original Musical categories, the principal music writer(s) for a feature film must submit an official music submission form by 5 p.m. PT on December 3.

To request music submission materials, contact Wil Goldenberg at (310) 247-3000, ext. 190, or via e-mail at wgoldenberg@oscars.org.

While the credits submission deadline is December 3, feature films have until midnight, December 31, to open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days to be eligible for 2007 Oscar® consideration.

Entries in the foreign language, animated feature, documentary, and short film categories are subject to special rules and must meet other qualifying criteria. The entry deadlines in these categories have already passed.

The 80th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.