Are VOD Movies Eligible for Academy Award Noms?

[OneWayFilms]

With this crazy new world we are living in and brand new movies dabbling in the VOD Premier format....will they still be eligible for nominations at the Academy Awards?

[mwynn]

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/os...%20This%20rule

The Academy also announced that films that had “previously planned theatrical releases” can qualify for Oscars without a Los Angeles qualifying run, but the film “must be made available on the secure Academy Screening Room member-only streaming site within 60 days of the film’s streaming or VOD release.” This rule change is in effect until further notice.

The Academy will eventually issue a specific date when the rule of a qualifying theatrical run goes back into effect, but the Academy will “expand the number of qualifying theaters beyond Los Angeles County to include venues in additional U.S. metropolitan areas: the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia.”