'The Croods' First Animated Oscar Screener to Reach Voters — hollywoodreporter.com

In a year when the best animated feature Oscar race seems to be wide open, will it help a contender to be the first to arrive in voters' mailboxes? Fox and DreamWorks Animation certainly seems to think so. Ahead of all the animated competition, the distributor and production company have sent sent official screeners of The Croods, a hit when it opened in March,  to Academy members. Regular, commercially-produced DVDs have been sent to members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The mailings went out on Oct. 2 and arrived at the end of last week.

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