A month back, the headlines mostly spoke about Jai Bhim making it into the Oscar nominations. Tamil media and a coterie of YouTube channels were jumping that that a scene from Jai Bhim, had made it to The Oscar’s official YouTube channel. It was also pedddled that the movie has been selected for the Osccars.
Into the #Oscars race!#JaiBhim makes it into the 276 films shortlisted by @TheAcademy for the 94th Academy Award nominations 💪
Read the full list here ➡️ https://t.co/M70mKOzmpe@Suriya_offl #Jyotika @tjgnan @rajsekarpandian @PrimeVideoIN
— 2D Entertainment (@2D_ENTPVTLTD) January 21, 2022
However, The Commune had earlier busted the half-truths peddled by popular media channels that the movie has been nominated for the Oscars. The film Jai Bhim had not made it into any jury selected nomination list, and merely made it into a ‘Reminder List’ of the Oscar, i.e., a list of movies that would qualify all the necessary rules, to make it to nominations.
The general nomination list for Oscar, is not the one that is determined by the Oscar jury. Instead, it is the list of all films submitting their entries, asking that they should be considered for the Award. There are rules such as, “Movies should be more than 40 minutes. They should have a specific pixels and sound quality,” that act as qualifiers for films to even apply for the Oscar awards. The Oscar then releases a list of all movies that basically qualify these rules, called as a ‘Reminder List’.
In such a manner, a Reminder List consisting of 276 films have been released for 2022. Movies like Marakkar and Jai Bhim amongst others, are a part of that list. It is to be noted that the Reminder List is neither the Awardee List, nor the Nomination List. It is just a list of films that have qualified to apply for the award. So, the film’s team submitted Jai Bhim for this list, and claimed that ‘Jai Bhim has been qualified for the Oscars’. They basically only shared news about half of the truth, making people believe that the movie has actually received that much appreciation.
In reality, a movie called Koozhangal was selected to represent India for the Best Feature Film category of the Oscars this year, but it was not selected by the Academy Awards jury.
However, like this was not expected, all media channels have reported that ‘Jai Bhim fails to make it to Oscars’, spreading a wrong narrative that it had the chances to make it to the Academy Awards. However, the reality is that Jai Bhim was never going to make it to the Oscars, as it was not even selected by the film makers crew of India, to be considered to be sent for the Oscar nominations. Believing that Jai Bhim actually had a chance, many netizens have reacted worried on its failure to make it. However, it would only be correct if media channels spell out the whole truth behind this, instead of reporting half truth, that helps spread an agenda.
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