After recording this week’s Reel Chronicles, I spoke about the possibility of Hamilton crashing next year’s Academy Awards as the critically acclaimed filmed production of the Tony award-winning Broadway show sits at 99 percent certified on Rotten Tomatoes along with receiving acclaim from critics and cinephiles across social media. However, those Oscar dreams may have been destroyed.
Despite the fact that changes were made to the guidelines and the Academy’s rule change was intended to protect films that had previously scheduled theatrical releases disrupted by the coronavirus, which this version of Hamilton was originally supposed to hit theaters in October 2021, before Disney and Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to debut it early as a July 4 present for viewers stuck in quarantine, a member of the Academy has said no regarding the films eligibility.
Despite the fact that the filmed version of Give ‘Em Hell, Harry, a one-man show about Harry Truman earned a Best Actor nomination for James Whitmore at the 1976 Oscars, an AMPAS source told Vulture plainly that, as a recorded stage production, Hamilton is not eligible for awards consideration. No word on whether the film will receive love from the Golden Globes and The Hollywood Foreign Press.
