Production Accountant Credit

Agreed! And not just cause I am one! 👏🏼👍🏼

It took us a while to figure out how to add a YES vote to Kathy's IMDb post, so we put together a quick guide to help others navigate the process:

https://ricegortonpictures.com/imdb-credit/

Accountants do need their own category. We are not just "Additional Crew" like PA's. 

How has this not happened already?!

100% agreed!  Should be kept separate from "additional crew"... Production Accountant/Controller, a bit more vital than warrants the title "additional crew", and "payroll accountant" because, no one is here without payroll ;)

that is awesome 

Nothing in film production happens by magic.  Every image on the screen is painstakingly detailed before cameras begin to roll, and every detail is run through the accounting office.  In fact, most film productions cannot even be bonded, let alone financed, until a qualified Production Accountant has been signed on to the project.  Production Accounting is one of the first departments hired on to a project, and one of the last departments to wrap up the production (only to have our work turned over to the Post Accounting team who then finishes the show).  Throughout my 30+ year career as a Production Accountant, I have had many-a-Producer say to me, "I want to keep the Accounting Department small so that I can put more money on the screen."  To this I ask, "Then why are you talking to me?  Just have your D.P. do your accounting."  As a Production Accountant, I am the Head of Department, with a staff of 2 to 10 people; I work with each of the other departments to assure they are able to do their jobs; and the quality of my work often determines if the project makes it to distribution or gets tied up in bankruptcy or endless lawsuits.  Everything we Production Accountants do is confidential and, in the background, but, when it comes to the question of our crucial contribution to the success of a project, it is only fitting that we are not lumped in with the background, but instead, acknowledged as separate department, equal to all other departments listed on IMDb.com.

Accountants serve a huge roll in making movies and television and should definitely be recognized for their dedication and therefor should deserve credits under accountants vs addl crew.  Movies and TV would not make it without the needed accountants on all shows.  It’s a must!!! 

PS - thank you Kathy :)

Make this happen.  There is an entire Accounting Department that needs to be recognized - Controllers, Keys, 1sts, 2nds, Payroll Accountants, Payroll Assistants, Clerks ... we are CREW.

DEFINITELY!!!! Without the accountants, your film could not be made cuz vendors would not be paid! That needs to be on a t-shirt!

As Controllers and Accountants, we are an integral part of the brain trust between the Studios and the Producers. We are involved in many facets of the production, we begin before the crew and stay on beyond the crew. The fact that our position is not recognized with more respect is outdated and needs to be addressed. If Studio's trust us to sign checks worth millions of dollars then I think we can all agree we are worthy of credits that reflect the level of responsibility and contribution to the projects we are a part of.

Anyone has a contact with the unions? Maybe worth running thru other social media! 

Thanks Kathy!  Great initiative.  Controllers, Accountants should be listed with the Production Managers - Management or Accountancy Management.  I’d like to see this before I retire :) Thank you!

Nadine Wilson

Production Controller / Accountant

Many of us on here have been an essential part of our industry and our projects for over 20 years!  We count, and not just in the obvious sense of the word! 

Production accountants shepherd the projects from prep sometimes all the way through to delivery, or we hand off to each other.  We are among the first hired, the most trusted and the busiest people on the project.  
IMDB, you know what to do. 

It's about time!