After the draft, you MUST set your starting lineup. Otherwise you won't get any points!
To submit your starting lineup, click on “Starting Lineup” from the “My Team” page. This will display your current starting lineup. You also have the option of displaying previous starting lineups.
Starting Lineup page
To change your starting lineup, click on “Submit Starting Lineup.” If the first ceremony in the matchup hasn’t started, you will be able to edit your starting lineup. If it has started, the “Submit Starting Lineup” page will be read-only for that matchup. If not, then the interface will appear like this.
Submit Starting Lineup dropdown menus
Each dropdown menu will contain all eligible players from your team for that roster slot. For example, as long as a player has “ACTR” as one of his position designations, they can fill your actor slot. For the Picture (PIC) slot, you may select a Picture, Animated, Foreign/International, or Documentary. Your FLEX spots can be anything.
I recommend exercising your option to “Update all lineups for future matchups” by selecting the checkbox, especially if this is your first time submitting your starting lineup shortly after the draft. If you fail to do so, you run the risk of submitting a lineup for Matchup 1 only and all subsequent matchups will still have your players on your bench. This option will save you if you happen to forget to set your lineup before Matchup 2 and beyond.
You’re not allowed to start the same player more than once in the same matchup. If you attempt to start a player more than once, you will receive an error saying, “You entered the same player more than once. Please submit your lineup again.”
Starting lineups are due before the first ceremony of each matchup has started. Starting lineups are set for the ENTIRE matchup. Once the first ceremony begins, your starting lineup for that matchup will lock, preventing you to make any changes to your lineup for that matchup. However, you can set your lineup for future matchups.
Default starting lineups in Red Carpet Rosters will consist as follows:
1 picture (PIC)
1 actor (ACTR)
1 actress (ACTRS)
1 director/screenwriter (DIR/SCRN)
1 animated feature/foreign language film/documentary (ANI/INT/DOC)
1 editor/cinematographer (aka director of photography) (EDIT/CIN)
1 production designer/costume designer/makeup & hairstyling team (PD/CD/MUAH)
1 visual effects/score composer/song/sound team (SCORE/SONG/SOUNG/VFX)
2 flex (can be anything) (FLEX)
The slashes mean that the player in that starting lineup slot can be any of those categories. For example, you can have either an editor OR a cinematographer in your EDIT/CIN slot.
Yes. Any film with ANI, INT, or DOC as their category can also fill your PIC starting slot, as long as you have another ANI/INT/DOC in that slot. For example, you could have the animated movie Turning Red in your PIC slot and foreign film Bardo in your ANI/INT/DOC slot. However, PIC's can NOT fill your ANI/INT/DOC slot.
No. The category only means where in your starting lineup he can be. Players earn points for ANY nomination or win they get. For example, Paul Thomas Anderson had CIN-DIR-SCRN as his categories last year for his film Licorice Pizza. Even though he could be in the EDIT/CIN slot, he would still earn points for directing and writing.
Think of it like Tom Brady scoring a rushing touchdown. That's still allowed in fantasy football, so we're allowing it here at Red Carpet Rosters.
This is a common misconception. Pictures get points for the picture as a whole. The reason why you didn't get points is because The Fabelmans didn't win best director, Steven Spielberg did. To that end, awards like Best Picture go to the producers of that picture. We're not drafting producers, so those points go to the PIC.
Just remember, we're drafting ALL films, cast, and crew, so those are the exact recipients of points for your team.
Yes. Last year Adam Stockhausen was the Production Designer for The French Dispatch and West Side Story, earning points for both and even getting an Oscar nomination for one. Jonny Greenwood composed music for THREE movies last year: The Power of the Dog, Spencer, and Licorice Pizza, scoring points for all three, including his Oscar nomination for The Power of the Dog. Past years have seen the same person scoring multiple Oscar nominations for different movies. Remember Scarlett Johansson with her roles in Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story?
No. It's very common for teams to be nominated for one movie, especially writers. They're separate people, so they're both able to be on teams. If you happen to have both Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg in your starting lineup and they earn a writing nomination, you get both those points.
Think of it like if Tom Brady passed a touchdown to Mike Evans. Tom Brady would get a touchdown and Mike Evans would get a touchdown. Same principle here.
Yes, absolutely! Jane Campion won a whole bunch of points last year for writing AND directing The Power of the Dog. The animated documentary Flee was a juggernaut last year, earning points for being an animated film, a foreign film, AND a documentary in the same ceremony, even earning THREE Oscar nominations.
For documentaries, ONLY the documentary can be drafted and not any crew from that documentary will be available to draft. Many of the crew members from documentaries get overlooked in more mainstream awards as opposed to documentary specific awards. If any documentary is recognized in ANY category, the points will go to the documentary. For example, the editor from Apollo 11 was nominated at one ceremony, so Apollo 11 earned points instead of the actual editor. For example, the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) guilds specifically award for sound in documentaries, so those points will go to the documentary as a whole. This rule is only applicable to documentaries because crew are available to draft for the other types of films (picture, foreign, and animated.)
It's often difficult to determine the makeup supervisor, chief hairstylist, sound team leaders, and visual effects supervisor of films around draft time. Because of this, you are drafting the entire makeup & hairstyling (MUAH) team, sound team, or visual effects team for these movies. For example, you think that Avatar 2's visual effects will get a lot of points, so you would simply select VFX Avatar: The Way of Water for your team.
Don't worry, the site won't let you break the starting lineup rules. And if you feel like your player should've earned points, just let us know at admin@redcarpetrosters.com.
