The Academy has changed the rules for documentaries for the 81st Awards (ie. for the Oscars taking place in 2009), dropping the requirement for a multi-city rollout. Instead docs will now have to screen for 7 days in BOTH Los Angeles County and the Borough of Manhattan, rather than in one or the other as the rules stand now.

Films that reach the semifinal round of voting will no longer be required to provide two film prints to the Academy but will be able to submit in either film or digital format, complying with rigorous Digital Cinema standards.

Read the new rules here:

http://www.oscars.org/81academyawards/rules/rule12.html

And the press release here:

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2007/07.10.09a.html

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