Bill Cramer, the newly appointed CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, launched a world tour of Venice’s Fall 2022 film festivals on Tuesday as the academy looks to secure its growing international membership.
Kramer participated in a panel titled “Cinema Values in Global Society” with Alberto Barbera, Artistic Director of the Venice Film Festival, and Nicola Maccanico, CEO of Italian studio giant Cinecittà, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival. Venice.
Kramer’s tour, which will take him from Venice to Telluride, Toronto and London, is also a testament to the Oscars’ support for the film festival circuit, which has been hit hard by the COVID pandemic. “I think a lot of us were thinking, are festivals going to be personal festivals again?” Cramer noted: “[but] I think we’ve come out the other side and now we see how important personal festivals are to the health of our film ecosystem.”
Noting that 25 percent of Academy members now live outside the United States, Kramer said the future of the Academy and the Oscars “lies in international cinema as well as national cinema.”
Bong Joon-ho’s Korean Drama, 2020 Best Picture Winner a parasite“It really changed people’s perspective on the Oscars,” Kramer said, noting that much of the conversation last season was about international awards, including drive my car (Japan), the worst person in the world (Norway) and parallel mothers (Spain).
Calling Venice “the beginning of awards season,” Kramer noted how the festival was Oscar-winning, with best picture winners such as nomadic country, water form, in the spotlight s bird Man The first Lido debut.
As for Venice’s treatment of movies from Netflix and other streamers (there are four films in the Venice competition this year), Kramer said that while the Academy would “never” give up on the Oscar qualifying race, there is growing synergy. Between streamers, festivals and the Oscars, it’s “good”.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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