you’re able to join the Oscar game for free.
But that doesnt mean you wont be making substantial payments to AMPAS before the votes are counted.
After the nominations are announced, the Academy fee for each blast will double to $1,000.
Those amounts could seem trivial when compared to the total cost of making and marketing even a low-budget film.
Academy officials declined comment on their fee schedules.
Variousguilds, for their part, charge their own fees for access to their digital mailing lists.
Oscar campaign rules permit multiple communications with AMPAS members, both before and after the nominations.
But access fees are only part of the picture.
And those mailing houses, of course, charge a send fee.
To post a watermarked version costs an additional $5,000.
Films with a budget of less than $10 million get a discounted rate for posting just $8,000.
In any case, the fees have made an impact on the groups bottom line.
Thus, contenders are contributing a growing share of that new, more diversified revenue stream.
