Academy Reviewing Oscar Rules After Online Campaign For Andrea Riseborough - HuffPost

Andrea Riseborough’s caller Oscar information has delighted fans — and seemingly perturbed the Academy.

On Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a reappraisal of its ain run policies to find if voting guidelines “were violated,” per People. While it didn’t sanction her, the quality came conscionable 3 days aft Riseborough’s unexpected motion for champion actress.

“It is the Academy’s extremity to guarantee that the Awards contention is conducted successful a just and ethical manner,” the Academy said successful a connection obtained by multiple outlets.

“We are conducting a reappraisal of the run procedures astir this year’s nominees, to guarantee that nary guidelines were violated,” it continued, “and to pass america whether changes to the guidelines whitethorn beryllium needed successful a caller epoch of societal media and integer communication.”

Though Riseborough had already received an Independent Spirit Awards motion for “To Leslie,” a play centered connected an alcoholic azygous parent astatine the extremity of her rope, astir Oscar analysts — and Riseborough herself — hadn’t considered her a front-runner for champion histrion this year.

Should Andrea Riseborough's Oscar motion beryllium rescinded, lone 4 nominees would stay for champion actress.

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“I’m astounded,” she told Deadline soon aft the nomination. “It was truthful hard to judge it mightiness ever hap due to the fact that we truly hadn’t been successful the moving for thing else. Even though we had a batch of support, the thought it mightiness really hap seemed truthful acold away.”

Many of Riseborough’s peers — including Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Christina Ricci — had taken to societal media earlier the voting play concluded to successfully lobby for her nomination. Ricci was the astir salient prima to treble down aft the reappraisal was announced.

“Seems hilarious that the ‘surprise nomination’ (meaning tons of wealth wasn’t spent to presumption this actress) of a legitimately superb show is being met with an investigation,” she wrote successful a now-deleted Instagram post, per Deadline.

However, Variety noted that an official “To Leslie” Instagram page whitethorn person violated Academy guidelines 2 weeks ago. A since-deleted station quoted movie professional Richard Roeper likening the performances of Riseborough and Cate Blanchett, who is nominated for her enactment successful “Tár.”

According to the rules, “any maneuver that singles retired ‘the competition’ by sanction oregon titles is expressly forbidden.” (Incidentally, Blanchett utilized her Critics Choice Awards triumph earlier this period to praise Riseborough.)

What’s more, the guidelines lone let movie studios to acquisition 1 email blast per week to beforehand their films — but the “To Leslie” run sent astatine slightest 3 to voters, Variety reported.

Should the Academy rescind Riseborough’s nomination, conscionable 4 competitors would remain: Blanchett (“Tár”), Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All astatine Once”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”) and Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”).

The 95th Academy Awards volition aerial March 12 connected ABC.