The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is tightening its rules to ensure greater fairness and engagement in the Oscar voting process. Starting with the next awards season, Oscar voters must watch all the nominated films in a given category to be eligible to vote in that category’s final round.

Depp shared two photos of him and Robert Downey Jr at the Golden Globe Awards in 2011, with a message as Downey took home his first Academy Award at the ceremony.

This year, the 96th Academy Awards hasn’t been any different with celebrities bringing their best and worst to keep the audiences at edge for another mishaps to take place on the world’s biggest stage.

The Academy is often influenced by expensively managed PR campaigns and battered by political and social forces far outside the Academy itself, that is to say, that the prize has little to do with the recognition of artistic merit but with hitting the right chords with the industry leaders.