VOTING RULES Academy Awards of Merit for Achievements During 1956 • in 0 E X
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29th Annual VOTING RULES Academy Awards of Merit For Achievements During 1956 • IN 0 E X ACTING AWARDS - Rule Seven . 8 ART DIRECTIO AWARDS - Rule Eight 8 BEST PICTURE AWARD - Rule Nine . 9 CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS - Rule Ten 9 COSTUME DESIGN AWARDS - Rule Eleven. 10 DIRECTING AWARD - Rule Twelve . 11 DOCUME T ARY AWARDS - Rule Thirteen 11 FILM EDITI G AWARD - Rule Fourteen 13 HONORARY AWARDS - Rule Four . 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD - Rule Fift een . 13 MUSIC AWARDS - Rule Sixteen 14. OTHER AWARDS - Rule Three 5 SCIE TIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARDS - Rule Seventeen 16 SHORT SUBJECTS AWARDS - Rule Eighteen . 18 SOUND RECORDING.A WARD - Rule Nineteen 19 SPECIAL EFFECTS AWARD - Rule Twenty 20 THALBERG AWARD - Rule Twenty-one 22 WRITI G AWARDS - Rule Twenty-two 22 29th Annual Awards Calendar Year 1956 VOTING TIMETABLE • GENERAL December 31, 1956 (Midnight) AWARDS YEAR ENDS Monday January 24, 1957 MAIL NOMINATIONS BALLOTS Thursday (Allowing 9 days for voting) February 2, 1957 NOMINATIONS POLLS CLOSE Saturday (Allowing 14 days to count ballots) February 17, 1957 FINAL SHORT SUBJECTS SCREENING Sunday IN ACADEMY THEATRE February 19, 1957 ALL NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED Tuesday (Released Monday Eve., Feb. 18th, 6 P.M. ) February 20 and 21, 1957 FI AL DOC UMENTARY SCREENINGS Wednesday and Thursday IN ACADEMY THEATRE February 23, 1957 SCREENING OF Saturday thru NOMINATED PICTURES IN March 15, 1957 ACADEMY THEATRE Friday March 7, 1957 MAIL FINAL BALLOTS Friday (Allowing 15 days for voting) March 22, 1957 FINAL POLLS CLOSE Thursday (Allowing 5 days for tabulation) March 27, 1957 AWARDS PRESENTATION Wednesday 29th Annual Academy Awards of Merit For Achievements During 1956 • VOTING RULES ONE The Awards Year Academy Awards of Merit shall be bestowed for achievements in connec· tion with motion pictures first publicly exhibited for paid admission (previews excluded) in the Los Angeles area (defined as Los Angeles, West Los Angeles or Beverly Hills), between January 1, 1956 and midnight of December 31, 1956, such exhibition being for a consecutive run of not less than a week after an opening prior to midnight of December 31st, following normal exploitation and advertising utilized by the producer for his other pictures within the dates specified. Entertainment Short Subjects which qualify under Rule Eighteen, distributed by a recognized distributing organization on a rental basis to 35mm. theatres for the profit of the producer and distributor, anywhere in Los Angeles County for a definite first paid play date of three consecutive days during the aforesaid period shall be eligible for consideration for the Awards. Pictures which qualify under the above rule, but which have also been exhibited in another medium are not to be excluded from eligibility, provided their first exhibition in another medium has occurred during the same Awards year. TWO The Annual Awards Subject to the inability of the Producer to comply herewith, every Award shall be conditioned upon the delivery to the Academy of one print of every film nominated for final balloting for all Academy Awards, and such print shall become the property of the Academy, with the proviso, however, that the Academy shall not use such print for commercial gain. Such print shall be deposited with the Academy and, subject to matters not within its control, shall be screened by the Academy for the membership in advance of distribu· tion of final ballots. Awards of Merit in the form of gold statuettes shall be conferred for the following achievements : ACTING: For the best performance by an actor. For the best performance by an actor in a support· ing role. For the best performance by an actress. For the best performance by an actress in a support. ing role. PAGE 3 ART DIRECTION: For the best achievement in art direction of a black and-white production. For the best achievement in art direction of a color production. (The Academy statuette shall be given to the Set Decorators on the pictures which win the Art Direction Awards.) BEST PICTURE: For the best motion picture of the year. CINEMATOGRAPHY: For the best achievement in cinematography of a black-and-white production. For the best achievement in cinematography of a color production. COSTUME DESIGN: For the best achievement in costume design of a black-and-white production. For the best achievement in costume design of a color production. DIRECTING: For the best achievement in directing. FILM EDITING: For the best achievement in film editing. FOREIGN LANGUAGE For the best foreign language picture of the year. PICTURE: MUSIC: For the outstanding achievements in music in con nection with motion pictures: (a) Best scoring of a musical picture. (b) Best music score of a dramatic or comedy picture. (c) Best song. SHORT SUBJECTS: For the best achievement in each of three classifica tions: (a) Cartoons, 1,000 feet or less. (b) 1,000-foot subjects. (c) Subjects between 1,000 and 3,000 feet. SOUND RECORDING: For the best achievement by a studio sound depart ment. SPECIAL EFFECTS: For the best achievement in special effects. WRITING: For the best motion picture story. For the best screenplay (adapted). For the best screenplay (original). PAGE 4 T H R E E Other Awards Not necessarily given each year. [A] Achievements or pictures eligible for Awards listed in Rule Two cannot qualify for Honorary Awards or Other Awards with the exception of the Documentary Awards and the Honorary Juvenile Award. [B] SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT: For a device, method, formula, discovery, or invention of special and outstanding value to the art or science of motiQn pictures, and actually employed in the motion picture industry during the Awards year. The Class I Award (Academy statuette) shall be conferred for basic achievements which have a definite influence upon the advancement of the industry; the Class II Award (Academy plaque) for those achievements which have a definite influence upon the industry, but merit recognition to a lesser degree than the Class I Award; the Class III Award (Certificate of Honorable Mention) for those accomplishments which are important to the progress of the industry. (See Rule Seventeen.) [C] IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD (Thalberg head): Shall be given at such times as in the judgment of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences there is a deserving recipient, but not necessarily each year. It shall be given to the individual who has been responsible for the most consistent high quality of motion picture pro· duction for the current Awards year and the four preceding years. (See Rule Twenty·one. ) [D] DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT (Statuette): For the best Feature length Documentary film and for the best Documentary Short Subject. (See Rule Thirteen.) [E] JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD (Statuette): Shall be given at such times as in the judgment of the Board of Governors of the Acad emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences there is a deserving recipient, but not necessarily each year. It shall be given to an individual of the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry. FOUR Honorary Awards [A] For outstanding achievements not strictly within the categories listed in Rules Two and Three. Honorary Awards shall only be given, however, for superlative and distinguished service in the making of motion pictures or for outstanding service to the Academy. PAGE 5 [B] Achievements voted Honorary Awards may be in connection with foreign as well as domestic productions and are not limited to the Awards year. Achievements or pictures eligible for Awards listed in Rule Two cannot qualify for Honorary Awards with the exception of the Honorary Juvenile Award. [C] Honorary Awards shall be in such form as the Academy Board of Gover· nors may decide. [D] HONORARY JUVE ILE AWARD (not necessarily given each year): Shall be voted by the Academy Board of Governors for the most outstanding juvenile performance during the Awards year, when in the judgment of the Board of Governors there is a deserving recipient. F I V E General Rules [A] Final balloting on all achievements shall be restricted to active Academy members. [B] The established gold statuette trophy of the Academy shall be conferred for all achievements listed in Rule Two, for the Class I Scientific or Technical Awards, for the Documentary Awards, and for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The Academy plaque shall be given for the Class II Scientific or Tech· nical Awards. The Thalberg head shall be given for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Trophies to be given for all Honorary Awards shall be determined by the Academy Board of Governors. [C] Final voting for Awards shall be by secret ballot. Printed forms and ballots shall be supplied by the Academy and shall be returned unsigned. [D] Ballots shall be opened and counted by a firm of certified public account ants designated by the Academy President. [E] Awards shall be conferred at an Awards Presentation Ceremony. [F] In the event that an achievement voted an Award was done in collabora tion, each of the collaborators shall receive an Award trophy. In the event of a tie for first place in the final balloting, Awards shall be given for both achievements. [G] In the nominations voting, the marking and tabulation of all ballots shall be according to the preferential or proportional system. No "write-in" votes shall be counted on the final ballots. PAGE 6 [H] The Board of Governors shall provide for such meetings, sub-committees and special showings, as may be desirable to insure a full and fair considera tion of the merits of all eligible achievements. [I] It being the intention that motion pictures from all countries shall be eligible for consideration for the Awards listed under Rule Two, the rules shall be construed liberally to include such motion pictures, except that they must have been shown in the Los Angeles area (defined as Los Angeles, West Los Angeles, or Beverly Hills) within the Awards year, must be in English or with English titles, and the producers or distributors shall provide prints when necessary for review showings.