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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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VanBarrJr
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I've been a paid user for a 5 years now, my work is primarily ADR. After the update, in the 'Known for' category it says "Voice Actor Dubbing English" on every new dubbing role where the character name used to be.
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fraugeld
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albertoachar
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Hello!
You've mistakenly allocated the role of 'petty cash buyer' to Production Finance & Accounting. The role of Petty Cash Buyer in the UK is a role within Set Decoration and the Art Department. Whilst there's handling of money, it's all for the purpose of buying and sourcing props and items for the decoration of the sets and it's got nothing to do with Accounting or Production Finance. Having been a petty cash buyer myself for many years, I can assure you it’s got nothing to do with Accounting or Financing.
Would you mind rectifying this please? Thank you very much!
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Vande
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Since the new categories have been added and the job titles are no longer picked from a drop-down menu, there have been some anomalies which have mostly now been ironed out, I think.
But I have two more - we were always told that theme music composers did not belong in the main Composers section, but in the Music section. However, now when I add one it says:
We would usually list composer: theme music in the Composer section, so this credit has been moved.
The other one is the regular TV credit "stage manager" - this always went in Other/Miscellaneous/Additional Crew, but now it says:
We would usually list stage manager in the Production Management section, so this credit has been moved.
However, it leaves "floor manager" in the Additional Crew section. Surely these two positions are equivalent to each other, so both belong in the same category? Production coordinator has never been classed as a Production Manager, so I don't think we can assume that those other two rôles do or don't belong in a Production Managers department.
Note: This comment was created from a merged conversationLink : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/category-queries/699384118744001d3bd7e786Title : Category queries
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Ryan_H
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I believe 'Stand-In' should be moved from the "Additional Crew" category to the "Camera and Electrical Department" heading.
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please add Cantonese and Mandarin and Thai and Korean and Japanese voice actor dubbing .
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Still weird how the categories are treated. For example, someone with most of their credits in Property Department has Additional Crew at the top of the page and next to their name in search results, including in the suggestions in the update form, which is unhelpful.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395355/
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please add Vietnamese voice dubbing.
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dylan
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Hi all
We have launched a new language menu under the “Voice Actor - Dubbing” section on the Cast & Crew title subpage. We launched this on IMDb web today, and in the IMDb iOS and Android apps a couple of weeks ago.
Previously, all the Voice Actor - Dubbing credits were shown in a long list, with no clear separation by language. This made it difficult to navigate to the particular language you wanted to see, and also made it difficult for us to load all the credits on the page in a timely manner.
Now, only the credits for selected language are shown - addressing the previous problems, and paving the way for adding more language options to this list in the coming weeks.
We have also removed the language attributes next to each person’s credit, as they are now unnecessary.
Many thanks for your patience as we continue to work through these enhancements to credits on IMDb,
Dylan
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