Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Data Issues & Policy Discussions

This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.

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Regarding updation of our legendary actor Late Manoj Kumar

The legendary actor of Indian cinema passed away on April 4, 2025, in Mumbai. However, his IMDb biography still shows that he is alive. I have attempted to update his biography with this information on seven different occasions, but all submissions have failed. This can be misleading for his fans wh

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Credit Submission Declined Multiple Times Despite Multiple Public Sources

I have been trying to add Sebastian Stan as a cast member to the In-Development project "Burning Rainbow Farm" (dir. Justin Kurzel). Despite multiple public statements by both Stan and Kurzel (referenced with links in my submissions) it keeps getting declined, despite adding more evidence, saying th

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IMDB KEEPS DECLINING MY ENTRIES -FOR NO REASON - I NOW FEEL TARGETED

I keep having to go through sending evidence for my work and it is driving me mad. I assume bots are verifying. But really ridiculous now as I added a new short film I produced- It excepted everyone I submitted and the project BUT NOT ME AS THE PRODUCER?????!?!?!?!?!???!? What can we do to stop this

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Vertical dramas /Vertical shorts/vertical movies - Is there an official way to mark/categorize them?

Hello. Where in the Help section can I find info about how to "mark/categorize" Vertical content? I'm new to this "genre", apparently there are a lot of new, often mini series with 2 minutes per episode, made in vertical format for mobile phones/apps. I think there are movies also. Created for mob

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Name Split: Edward E. Rose & Edward Rose

I just submitted a name split for these two authors (contribution #250414-212937-841000). The name split thing doesn't give me the option to separate the writer credits, though. Both people are only known for being authors. Anyway, I explained everything in my submission, but experience has taught

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Had Enough

I have sent this email to IMDb support and they suggested I post it here. I am writing because I've been extremely annoyed and frustrated contributing to IMDb recently. So much so that I'm considering leaving the site. I've made the annual Top Contributor's list for almost a consecutive decade. I h

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Trying to submit an actress to a project

I also have the same question. I’ve been trying to submit an actress to a project with supporting documentation, but her credit keeps getting declined while others went through without issue. We’ve even used capcut to put together a behind-the-scenes reel as part of the submission, so it’s frustrati

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Image deletion and plot outline corrections

Hi, Please find here after some contributions I made that were declined and I do not understand why: 1- Duplicated posters removal: Here are my 2 contributions for the movie « American Sniper »: https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/250414-200002-848702 https://contribute.imdb.com/contributio

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I want to change the last year of this series

When I first added a series in the site I have settled the first year to last year period being 2014-2019, but the show last episode is actually from 2023, and I don't know how to change that in the page, there's no specific section to it, and I even added new episodes from after 2019, and it still

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An award I'm trying to add doesn't get published

I'm trying to add an award our film won at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Mermaid award - Special mention) but it doesn't get published and I don't know why. Is there any way to find out? Reference number: 250419-153444-918000 Thanks,

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