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    The Oscar screener was invented by accident, and other secrets of an awards season staple

    by Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times Mar 02, 2018 5 minutes

    Filmmaker John Boorman was desperate.

    Despite great reviews, his 1985 movie "The Emerald Forest" wasn't getting a for-your-consideration Academy Awards campaign from its distributor, which was in disarray. Few members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had seen the drama, and Boorman feared it would be overlooked.

    So he arranged in January 1986 for several hundred VHS copies of "The Emerald Forest" to be made available for free to academy members at local video rental stores. He took out ads in entertainment trade publications to alert Hollywood to his effort, splitting the $15,000 cost with the distributor.

    "It was just a rather desperate act of trying to get some recognition for the picture," said Boorman, 85, who directed and produced the Powers Boothe-starring film. "I was aware that it hadn't been done before."

    "The Emerald Forest" didn't get any Oscar nominations - but Boorman's gambit

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