Katie Rich

No, you're in it.

You're in it for life.

There are rules about how to stay an active voter.

There are people who are moved into emeritus status if they haven't worked in the industry long enough or haven't.

I think they make it so that if you're like active and participating that you can stick around.

They don't want to kick you off the rolls.

But there certainly had been an issue.

Around the Oscars, a white era of people who hadn't worked in the industry in decades might have retired to God knows where, but we're still voting.

And so they're trying to make it representative of people who are working in the global film industry.

So they are way more internationally spread than they used to be.

Yeah, it's something like that.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

They have a lot of more things in London.

The BAFTA Awards are a huge stop for that or the London Film Festival because these Oscar campaigns, especially to get nominations, which we can talk about how that works, like it really can come down to just a couple dozen votes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you've got, I think, 19 branches of the Academy.

And that's art directors, casting, actors is one of the biggest ones.

It's over a thousand people.