Listing ADR voice acting credits as voice acting or ADR/voice credits, not Miscellaneous Crew?

For years now, I have seen several requests that iMDB finally stop listing ADR voice actors as "Miscellaneous Crew." On professional sets, ADR voice actors sign the same SAG-AFTRA contracts and receive residuals, just as on-camera actors do. Because they belong to the same union. ADR voice actors are NOT crew. This vital voice work has become so devalued and dismissed by iMDB, that many actors who do ADR voice work don't even list those credits. Because they do not want to be credited here as crew. They are actors, albeit voice actors. It is wrong to list them any other way and after all these years, iMDB finally needs to fix it. So please list ADR voice work as either "ADR/voice" or simply "Voiceover." Just not "Miscellaneous Crew." It's about time.

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Bethanny

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3 years ago

Hi @jr_7431670 -

As per our guidelines Adr/looping/background voices & announcer credits for non-fiction titles can be listed as cast, as long as the production credits them as cast or immediately after the cast. We are aware miscellaneous is not the best category for some crew positions and we are currently working on more specific categories for the future, but this is not meant to be demeaning, it just means we just don't have the specific category for that job, and we are aware that those credits are just as valuable as any other.

Thanks!

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@Bethanny Again, this concern has gone on FOR YEARS! So to say that you are "currently working on more specific categories for the future" may sound helpful, as I'm sure that's your intention. But unfortunately - for the very reason that this HAS dragged on for years - it, sadly, means very little. Also, productions NEVER credit ADR as cast or immediately after. So your suggestion regarding that is moot. In fact often, individual ADR actors are not mentioned at all, simply the name of the voice casting director or loop group: and usually, they are credited under sound credits. So this is a fight with the actors' union, as much as it is with IMDB. But IMDB's weak response and position certainly does not help with making arguments for the necessary changes with the actors' union.

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Listing ADR voice acting credits as voice acting or ADR/voice credits, not Miscellaneous Crew?

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