The Golden Globes have been and gone, but The Oscars are arriving soon and the nominations will come even sooner. The two awards shows are different, coming from different judging panels who decide upon the winner. But what are The Oscars and when are they?
What are The Oscars?
The Oscars, technically known as the Academy Awards, is an annual awards ceremony which honours the year before’s best film work, spotlighting acting, writing, producing, and technical aspects of film making.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929, and has continued almost every year since, with it also being shown live on ABC Network for viewers at home.
For the last few years, since 2002 to be precise, the ceremony has taken place in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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How do the nominees get chosen? Is it different to the Golden Globes?
For the Oscars, the winners are decided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) which has approximately 7,000 members.
The membership is divided into different branches which depend on its discipline in film production.
The different groups will then vote using an online ballot system to determine which actors, writers etc. are nominated, and they are allowed to make up to five nominations, and 10 for the Best Film category.
This voting system then works similarly to the Golden Globes, with the ranking of each nomination playing a part in how many “points” it receives, which will then determine which nominations become the official nominations.
After this, the members will then vote on who should win, and the nominee with the most number of votes takes home the prize.
Differently to the Golden Globes, The Oscars only takes films into consideration, rather than film and TV, and films must play in a cinema for seven consecutive days to qualify for the awards.
The eligible period of January 1 to December 31 is the same for both awards, however.
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In terms of the ceremonies themselves, both are televised in the USA and contain similar formats.
One difference is, with the Golden Globes, the guests sit on tables which allows for them to also have a banquet.
With The Oscars, however, the stars are seated in rows, as the event takes place in a theatre rather than in a hotel ballroom, as is the case for the Golden Globes.
The Golden Globes is shown on NBC, as it has been for decades, while The Oscars are broadcast by ABC.
The Golden Globes, which took place on January 5, are held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, or the HFPA.
To qualify, films must be officially screened to the HFPA, or TV series need to be shown to them as early as possible before the deadline.
Screenings for films must take place between January 1 and December 31, meaning only films in one year will be eligible.
The HFPA are all members of the press, and after films have been submitted (with paperwork filled out within ten days of their screening) the members then take part in ballots to select their nominations.
Each votes for their top five choices for each category, with five being the top and one being the bottom, with the numbers equalling points.
The film, TV show, actor or other category with the greatest number of points will be nominated, after which the HFPA vote for their favourite of the group, with the highest number of votes winning the award.
For the Oscars, there is only one Best Film, while for the Golden Globes there are two Best film categories – for drama and musical and comedy.
As a result, it will be likely the Golden Globe winners – 1917 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – will be going head to head.
The Oscars take place on February 9, 2020, and will be broadcast live on ABC