The Academy Strips Oscar Nom for Sound Mixing Due to Lobbying

The Academy has taken away an Oscar nomination for 13 Hours for their sound mixer due to telephone lobbying which is against Academy regulations.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the sound mixer for the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has been stripped of an Oscar nomination. Greg P. Russell was lobbying for votes and violated Academy campaign regulation.

While it sounds interesting, it is actually a weird thing to have done in the first place. The point of the Academy Awards is to honor those who did the best work. So if you campaign for someone to vote for you, it is just a strange thing to do.

Granted yes, having Academy Award winner around your name is something that is especially important. But there is something different if you openly campaign for yourself. It kind of makes you a lot less important. If you win because you asked people to do it, it negates the actually winning of the award.

Basically, Greg took it upon himself to campaign for his win. While studios can do that, it isn’t okay for the person nominated to campaign for their own win. While that may sound idiotic, it is to keep people from hounding Oscar voters.

For this though, Greg clearly broke the regulation and, in my eyes, was rightfully stripped of his nomination. But we will see how people deal with the change. After all, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi didn’t get much nominations after that.

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Check back here on Culturess all night long for information on the Oscars and our up to date coverage on who is going to win. And we know one thing for sure, Greg is not going to go home a winner tonight.