Red Carpet Rosters

Scoring in Red Carpet Rosters will be computed each time nominations are announced and/or winners are announced. Players may only start at one position in any given week. Players will earn points for each nomination and win regardless of what those nominations and wins are. Sian Heder won many awards for writing and directing CODA. All points earned will count towards your team.

In general, each film, cast, and crew will receive points for each critics’ award, industry award, and Academy Awards.

What's the difference between critics awards, industry awards, and the Academy Awards?

There are LOTS of national and regional film critics associations, and they often give end of the year film awards. These critics associations are coast to coast and everywhere in between. If they vote on awards, it's likely they're represented here.

Industry awards are other film groups and guild associations. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Director's Guild of America (DGA), Independent Spirit Awards, and the Golden Reel Awards are examples of industry awards.

The Academy Awards, or the Oscars, are the main event, representing the pinnacle of film awards season.

How many points is a critics award vs. an industry award vs. an Academy award?

The critics’ awards will earn 1 point per nomination plus a 1 point bonus for a win. For critics associations that only announce winners, two points will be awarded for each winner.

The industry awards will earn 2 points per nomination plus a 2 point bonus for a win. (If a film is included in the AFI Top 10 films, four points will be awarded to that film.)

Some Academy Award categories are “shortlisted.” This means that for that category, only the shortlisted have a chance of then being nominated. Those shortlisted crew and films will receive 1 point each. There are seven applicable categories that are shortlisted with the number of eligible films: Documentary (15), Score (15), Song (15), International (15), Makeup (10), Sound (10), and Visual Effects (10).

The Academy Awards technical categories (Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Score, Song, Production Design, Sound, and Visual Effects), animated, foreign/international, and documentary will earn 4 points per nomination plus a 4 point bonus for a win.

Academy Award major categories (Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Original Screenplay, and Adapted Screenplay) will earn 6 points per nomination plus a 6 point bonus for a win.

The Academy Award Best Picture will earn 8 points plus 8 point bonus for a win.

In some cases, no nominations are presented, so the winner will receive 2 points if critics and four points if industry. In some critics’ awards, winners are presented with runner(s)-up with no other nominations announced. The runner(s)-up will receive one point and the winner will receive two points. However, some critics awards announce nominations and THEN announce a runner-up and a winner. If prior nominations were announced, no extra points will go to the runner-up.

Is there a calendar of awards?

Yes. The calendar of awards will be updated on the Calendar of Awards page and in the "Ceremonies" section of your league page.

What happens if there is an awards announcement that wasn't on the calendar?

This is much more common than you'd think. A lot of the regional critics associations conduct a vote and release their awards without alerting anyone else the day on which they announce them. This is one of the main reasons why starting lineups are set for the entire matchup. Nonetheless, "surprise announcements" as we like to call them are included in Red Carpet Rosters, and add a little bit of unexpected excitement to matchups. For example, last year the Iowa Critics Association announced on the LAST day of a matchup, resulting in enough of a point swing to change some outcomes! Sure, fantasy football has the advantage of pretty much knowing when the games are going to be played each week, but this is better than fantasy football. This is fantasy film awards.

Also, it's quite common for announcements to change schedules. We roll with the punches at Red Carpet Rosters. One year, a regional critics group were victims of a hotel conference room double booking, so they had to postpone their vote. Generally, if a ceremony occurs within the matchup dates, that ceremony will be included for points.

How do I know when a ceremony's points are reflected in my league?

If you click on "Ceremonies" and then navigate to the current matchup, you will see the current matchup schedule of ceremonies along with the awards they are handing out. If "DONE" appears before the date of the ceremony, that means all points from that ceremony have been entered, tabulated, and processed for your league's teams. Sometimes, categories within ceremonies change. These points will still be valid, even if that category doesn't appear in the Ceremonies section. As long as it's a competitive award and not a special mention or lifetime achievement or similar, those points will be reflected in your league.

The maximum amount of time between ceremony announcements and those points being updated on Red Carpet Rosters is 24 hours.