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Introducing: New Credit Categories and Professions
We are excited to announce 12 new credit categories on IMDb, advancing recognition for essential entertainment professions
This enhancement reflects our commitment to serving the evolving entertainment industry and acknowledging the increasingly diverse roles that make today's content possible.
The new credit categories are: Choreography; Color Department; Craft Services; Health and Safety Department; Intimacy Coordination; Legal; Production Department; Production Finance and Accounting; Property Department; Publicity; Puppetry; and Voice Actor - Dubbing. Previously, these credits were primarily listed under the "Additional Crew" category. Credits are also now displayed under dedicated section headings for these new categories across IMDb and IMDbPro web and apps. IMDb will continue to expand professional credit categories and recognition opportunities based on industry feedback.
The "Voice Actor - Dubbing" credit category is for voice performances ("dubs") that are translated versions of a title’s originally recorded dialog. We currently accept dubs into the following languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
To contribute credits under these new categories, just navigate to the usual credits contribution interface via one of the “Edit”/pencil buttons on a name or title page. You will now see these twelve additional category options listed underneath the pre-existing ones. As before, the “Role” field for each category includes a searchable menu of the most common roles listed under each credit category. For example, the role “production coordinator” is now suggested under the new category “Production Department” (it was previously listed under “Additional Crew”).
Please note that we are also in the process of migrating pre-existing credit items to their relevant new credit category. This will take a number of days, due to the sheer number of credits that we need to move. We expect to complete this migration by Sunday, November 9 at 11:59PM PST.
For more information about these new credit categories, please visit our Help Guide: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdbpro/new-features-updates/announcement-new-credit-categories-and-professions/GWTJ4QXRS5HSJUPZ#
In addition to new credit categories, IMDbPro Premium members can also select their professions from a recently expanded list of nearly 500 options to enhance their discoverability by industry decision-makers. You will therefore start noticing more specific professions (such as “Production Coordinator” and “Digital Colorist”) directly underneath the person’s name on some name pages across IMDb and IMDbPro.
As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts, feel free to share your questions and feedback in the comments below!
Many thanks — The IMDb Team
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Please allow a section for dubbing voice directors and script adaptors and dubbing studios.
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Please add Turkish dubbing voice actors.
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Please add Swedish, Icelandic, Danish and Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish , Czech and Arabic and Hebrew dubbing actors.
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Hi IMDb Team,
I want to appreciate the addition of 12 new categories - voice actors - dubbing among them. Thanks for making the work of the people in the field of dubbing more visible.
In that matter it also would make sense to include the departments that are involved in the dubbing process such as dialogue recording engineers, dialogue editors and dialogue directors in the dubbing recording process and the dialogue editors and mixing engineers in post production. In some productions there are even whole songs whose singing vocals are translated, recorded and edited in the process of dubbing. A process that again needs its own team of specialized vocal sound engineers, vocal directors and vocal editors beyond the dialogue recording.
All of those people put much effort into the process of translating the experience of movies and series into a specific language and therefore making it accessible to a broad audience that otherwise wouldn't be able to enjoy them. I believe those people would be very grateful to be more visible and credited for their work, too.
Since there almost always exist a dubbing card with all credits after the credit roll at the end of any movie or series this would be very easy to verify and gives more justification to include those also at IMDb.
Thank you for the great work and greetings to you and all creatives!
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversationLink : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/additional-suggestion-adding-more-dubbing-departments/6947b738d907dc059bf0c5b6Title : Additional Suggestion: Adding more Dubbing Departments
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Please add Czech and Thai voice dubbing actors.
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Earlier in the thread it was stated that "dubbing voice performances are the only credits on dubbed versions of a title that are now eligible for listing on IMDb. As before, roles such as: ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement), loop group, audio description, dubbing script translator; that are not for the title’s original language version, are still ineligible for listing on IMDb."
Looking again at the guidelines for the voice dubbing category and specifically the list of "example roles excluded", I just think the wording is a little confusing.
For example it lists
It could be understood as saying that someone who worked in this role on a dubbed foreign-language version can be added to the sound department.
Perhaps the intention is that such credits can be added when they have to do with the original version. But this could be clarified.
The same list appears on these pages:
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/crew-credit-guidelines/GNHXXUGBUDKEUUMJ?ref_=helpsrsctn#voice
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/new-credit-categories/GVX4ZP2JX4W5QWAN?ref_=helpart_nav_4
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/adding-filmography-credits/GAB5B33MBLEG73CT?ref_=helpsrall#addvoice
https://help.imdb.com/article/issues/GC5Z2DCVYVK9PCBG
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The stats page (https://www.imdb.com/pressroom/stats/) has been recently updated, but the new categories are not (yet) listed there. Have they been overlooked?
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Is it planned to move ‘petty cash buyer’ credits back under the art department? It’s primarily a set decoration role & has nothing to do with the finance or accounting departments
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