The Academy also amended the rules governing how the nominees in the Best Animated Feature category will be chosen.
The Academy has announced that multi-part docs like O.J. can never again win the Best Documentary Oscar.
Now the entire Academy will pick the nominees, which THR theorizes “could end up favoring more popular wide releases from the mainstream studios.”
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature was O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman’s epic examination of O.J. Simpson’s life, career, and the murder trial that captivated the American imagination.