Overview
- The TV movie field is retitled Outstanding Movie to reflect works created for broadcast or streaming.
- New AI language lets the Academy ask about AI use in submissions while reaffirming a focus on human storytelling.
- A Legacy Award debuts to honor long-running, culturally influential series, with candidates proposed by a renamed Special Awards Committee and approved by the Board.
- Short-form races become tracked categories that split original series from derivative series, with proportional nominations and at least one slot for each genre.
- Technical and credit updates include splitting sound mixing into separate nonfiction and reality awards, expanding music rules to cover main‑on‑end themes and a 50% episode threshold plus eligibility for reality scores, and adding titles such as Associate Casting Director, Key Costumer, conditional Director of Photography and Line Producer, with the full rule book slated to post the week of Jan. 19.