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81st Annual
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Academy Awards
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
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5 PT/8 ET (live on ABC)
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Oscar voting rules
- How it works?
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter, Feb 15, 2009)
Will the best picture of the year be named best picture at the Oscars on Sunday? The Academy uses two very different voting procedures to determine the nominees for best picture and the actual winner.
The way this works, members (and all Academy members are eligible to nominate best picture contenders) choose five movies that they rank in order of preference. For a movie to get nominated, it must be ranked No. 1 by a fifth of the voters.
If not enough movie passed the threshold,
the Academy takes the movie with the lowest number of No. 1 votes and reallocates those votes to the No. 2 choices on the ballots.
This could be one reason "The Dark Knight" failed to get nominated, an oversight that several insiders believe will have a serious effect on the Oscarcast's declining ratings. Many of the Academy's younger members might have made it their first choice, but not enough to cross the 20% threshold. Then too few older members placed it second on their ballots.
When members vote for the winner, however, a different system applies. At that stage it becomes a simple matter of first-past-the-post. So in theory, in a really tight race, you could win it with 21% of the vote.
If this nominating system favors generally acceptable films over ones that are adored by a passionate minority, by contrast, the method for choosing the winner benefits one film with the most intense support.
Source (Yahoo News): Oscar voting rules create uneven playing field
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