While reading about TFA’s nomination, I found this. It seems like TFA is in a way “more equal than other” movies 😄
Storm in a teacup. To think you’d resign over it. I don’t know.
There are at least 4 movies up for several nominations that only opened internationally this week and another 4 that still haven’t been released internationally yet. But of course those were given brief pre-screenings earlier, simply to make them eligible for the awards. With the secrecy/buzz over TFA, it was never gonna be screened early. Also films like ‘The Hateful Eight’ were released in the US a week after TFA but again were given an earlier pre-screening. So any idea that the membership didn’t have a chance to see TFA is rubbish, they had an extra week!
So IMO it’s got far more right to be considered than those other movies.