Hurt Locker producer banned from Oscar night

[Cajungal]

Nicolas Chartier has been barred from the event after sending an e-mail to voters urging them to name his movie as best film over rival Avatar.

Academy rules prohibit the mailing of members to promote or disparage a film.

But should The Hurt Locker win best picture, Chartier will still receive his Oscar statuette at a later date.

Too bad, but rules are rules I guess. So there's no campaigning allowed in movies, eh? I was never familiar with this rule.

 

[Dave]

You can pimp yourself out all you want, but you can't say anything about the other films.

Had he just mentioned The Hurt Locker he'd have been fine.

 

[MindDetective]

It says promote or disparage. You can send out gifts to people and remind them of you (and thus your movie), though.

 

[sixpackshaker]

It is that he did not buy an ad in Variety. You just can't contact the voters directly. You have to use ad-space.

I hope he wins. Just to cut 5 mins off of the broadcast.

 

[Dave]

The promoting has been official but not enforced for years. People promote their stuff all the time and they just look away.

 

[SpecialKO]

Yeah, I imagine that somehow sending emails the way he did "crossed the line" mysteriously.