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Oscar Bleacher Creatures Need Apply
See, thanks to stepped-up security measures, getting a seat in the red-carpet bleachers won't be as easy as staking out a spot and breaking out the camping gear.
For the first time ever, Academy Award organizers are making all prospective bleacher creatures fill out applications and submit to background checks.
Yeesh, it's like trying to get a job or something, huh?
Actually, it is. There's even an official form. It's called the Fan Bleacher Seat Request Form. You can find it at the Academy Website, www.oscars.org, where it was posted today.
The form asks for all your vitals: Name, address, phone, Social Security and driver's license numbers. A signature implies that you can vouch for all your info, plus that you give the Academy the right to run a verification check. (Journalists who wish to cover the event must go though a similar process.)
If you're thinking you have September 11 to blame (or thank) for the paperwork, you're wrong. Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger insists it's the show's new venue, not the threat of terrorism, that has prompted the move.
"A very dense environment" is how Unger describes the lavish, Hollywood & Highland complex in the heart of Hollywood. And she is so not kidding. The Kodak Theater, which will house the 74th Annual Academy Awards on March 24, is the centerpiece of Hollywood & Highland, an open-air mall which includes more than 75 shops and restaurants. Previous Oscar venues, such as Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, were neatly tucked away in low-traffic, low-profile areas.
Which brings us back to the Fan Bleacher Seat Request Form.
Get it in--and get it in fast. (The form must be mailed.) The Academy's got about 400 seats to fill and it's going to fill them with the first 400 applicants who vet out.
Unger says it's quite possible that the Academy will receive all the applications it needs within the next couple of days.
"The phone has been busy," she says.
And if you don't make the cut? Well, like we said, you better pray that nomination comes through next Tuesday.
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