The films the commissioner thinks could be nominated, in three tiers. The fair range is what the commissioner thinks a film is worth at the auction; bid what you like. Unseen means nobody in the league has seen it yet, and every roster needs one. Tick the films you've seen: your ticks decide what's unseen before the auction. If the league has seen nearly everything by auction night, the films it has seen least count as unseen too. Missing a film? Ask for it by Oct 15.

One video call, about an hour. Your group picks the night. Everyone has $300. Someone nominates a film, the room bids, the commissioner types the sale in and everyone sees it here. Four to eight films each, depending on league size; at least one unseen. The minimum bid is $5, and you always keep $5 for every slot you still have to fill, so your max bid is on screen all night. With six films to buy, your first bid can go as high as $275: $300 less $5 for each of the other five. Can't get everyone on a call? The commissioner can switch the league to a snake draft: it opens here on a day you set, and everyone picks a film in turns on a clock, no budget. The fade then goes against a rival's first pick.

Each time a show nominates one of your films, you score, through Oscar nominations morning. A show pays for a film's first nomination, then again for each extra category.

Four Oscar nominations score 10 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 19.

In December the critics groups pay your films for wins too: 1 point for each award, 2 points for the group's top film.

A race is one film in one category. From January through Oscar night, every time that film wins that category, whoever holds the race scores.

Hamnet for Actress won five times in 2025–26 (Critics Choice, the Golden Globes, BAFTA, the Actor Awards and the Oscars): 3 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 10 = 26 points for whoever held the race.

Your bank is 40% to 100% of what your rival paid for the film, depending on the league's size. Every point that film scores comes out of the bank; it can go negative. All the envelopes open at once on Sunday night. It sits outside the total until the Golden Globe nominations freeze the board, then it counts. If you trade for that film later, it scores for you and still comes out of your bank. A league can choose instead to end the fade there, or not to allow the trade.

Say a rival paid $70 for Gladiator II in 2024–25 and you faded it. At 60%, the share for five players, your bank starts at 42.

Then nothing more: your fade is worth 35 points.

It can go the other way. Fade Wicked (2024–25) at $50 and your bank starts at 30, but it scored 59, so your fade costs you 29 points.

Most weeks a contender opens. Guess its opening weekend and its Metacritic score by Thursday 9pm; closest wins 3 points each, and a tie pays each 3. A form guide with comparable films comes with every call, so nobody guesses blind.

One Battle After Another opened to $22.4M on its wide weekend in 2025, and its Metacritic score was 95. Say three of you called it:

Jordan was closest on the gross and Sam on Metacritic: 3 points each.

First dibs: before the draft opens, you can keep one race from a film you own, and it counts as one of your races. Then last place picks first, and the order snakes back. Queue races ahead: when your turn comes, the top one that's still open is picked for you at once. If none is, you have twelve hours to pick, then you get the highest race left.

Trades: one film for one film, any time until Oscar nominations. Races can't be traded. Trading for the film you fade is fine: it still counts against your fade, unless your league chose otherwise.

Waiver week (Dec 8–14): drop one, add any undrafted film. Only time to change your fade.

Ties: most Oscar races won, then Best Picture, then a coin flip on video.

Money: handled outside the app; the commissioner sets the buy-in, and the winner takes it.

Sharing a seat: fine if one of you has never played. One roster, one budget, one vote.