Katie Rich
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Just the size of award season, the way that the Academy voters are now spread around the world, the amount of events and festivals and tastemaker screenings and smaller award ceremonies.
You got to get your people in as many locations as possible.
What's that cost per vote?
So, OK, so you've got like 11,000 members roughly.
So you imagine and it has to get more than 50 percent.
So there's a whole ballot process.
Let's say so that's 6,000 votes divided by 18 million dollars.
This is very back of the envelope math.
But it also won Best Actress.
It also won Best Director.
So that's a lot of, you know, the value it continues to add.
The Oscars, maybe even 10 years ago, had about half as many members as it does now.
The Academy, about 6,000 people.
It's now around 11,000.
And every year they invite a new class of people to join the Academy.
So they add to it every year.