Sam Sanders

And it's more than what it was, right?

Add to it every year.

And the ones who have been there forever, they don't have to leave until they're dead.

There's a lot of folks right now because there's no job.

20 percent are international, correct?

If you're having events trying to get as many votes as you can, you have to go find these international voters where they are.

Well, this is what's so crazy.

All of the writing about how these campaign seasons work.

The margins are so small.

Sometimes you're looking for less than 200 votes or a few dozen.

Yeah.

And you mentioned the process to nominate.

It is different from the process to vote for the final films that win.

And that kind of dictates the level of focus and how that happens, too, right?

Because the branch sets a nomination.

I thought that film was all CGI.

Yeah.

You know, these screenings that these films are holding to get Academy voters to watch the films, they're not just screenings.

Vanity Fair covered this extensively.

There was an elaborate Victorian-style fair complete with hot air balloons when Amazon was pushing the aeronauts.