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90th Oscars Nominations Announcement


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The 90th Academy Awards® nominations in all 24 Oscar® categories will be announced in a two-part, live presentation on Tuesday, January 23, via global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms, a satellite feed and local broadcasters.  The announcement will combine live presentations from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, with pre-taped category introductions, which will only be featured in the first half of the announcement.

At 5:22 a.m. PST, the nominees will be announced in the following categories (listed here in no particular order): Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.

At 5:38:30 a.m. PST, the nominees will be announced in the following categories (listed here in no particular order): Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Animated Feature Film, Directing, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Original Song, Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay.

A 90th Oscars Nominations press kit will be available at http://www.oscars.org/press/press-kits immediately following the announcement.

Hashtag: #OscarNoms, #Oscars

LIVE STREAM INFORMATION

The announcement will be streamed live on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s digital platforms.

To embed the announcement on your webpage, please use:

 https://www.youtube.com/embed/caCdf94Blfw

https://www.youtube.com/embed/caCdf94Blfw
If you have any questions about the live stream, please e-mail socialmedia@oscars.org.

TRANSMISSION FEED ACCESS

POOL FEED INFORMATION

HD-SDI (1080i 59.94 w/embedded audio, 16:9, uncompressed) via the AT&T Hub
Circuit number (HD):  CKT # 30TRGS800771-001PT
Audio Ch Assignments:  Ch.1-Stereo Lt.  Ch. 2-Stereo Rt.
HD-SDI on pool ports at The Switch in Los Angeles (Switch Pool-3 LA) and New York (NYPool-3).  Please contact The Switch at 866-660-9191 or NOC@TheSwitch.tv for more information.
HD Via Satellite downlink – decoding parameters and satellite location listed below
POOL FEED TEST AVAILABLE: 1/22/18

15:00- 15:30 PST – Fiber test AT&T Hub and LA Switch Pool
15:00-15:30 PST – Satellite test
POOL FEED TIMELINE: 1/23/18

05:00:00 PST – A test signal slate with 1Khz audio tone and countdown clock to event will be fed
05:21:30 PST – Signal will fade to black and silence :30 seconds prior to feed
05:22:00 PST – Exact time of the 1st nominations group announcement start
05:37:00 PST – Commercial break 01:30 duration
05:38:30 PST – Exact time of the 2nd nominations group announcement start
05:48:00 PST (Approx.) – End of feed
SATELLITE

Oscar Nominations - Ku-band - HD

Transmit:                     PSSI TES
Satellite:                      Galaxy-17, tr. 17K, Lower
Location:                     91 degrees west
Downlink Freq.:           12,031 MHz Horizontal
Bandwidth:                  18 MHz
Service ID:                  AMPAS - Oscar Nominations
Video:                          HD 1080i / 59.94 / 16:9
Compression:              MPEG-4 Chroma: 4:2:0
Delay:                          Low
GOP Structure:           64
Frame Structure:        IBBBP
Modulation:                 DVBS-2, 8PSK
FEC Rate:                   2/3
Symbol Rate:              15.00 Msym/s
Data Rate:                   29.709543 mbps
Pilots:                          Off
Roll off:                       20%
Required Eb./No:        7.0 db
Encryption:                  In-the-clear
Captioning:                  NO
Video PID:                   101 (Encoder set to Maximize/ Auto Fill)
Audio Data Rate:        384 Kbits
Audio PID:                   102
Ch. 1:                          Program Stereo Lt.
Ch. 2:                          Program Stereo Rt.

Please call 310-276-1407 if there are any issues in receiving the signal.  This line is meant for technical questions only.

MEDIA CONTACT
Academy Publicity
publicity@oscars.org


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