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Post by kevin on Feb 27, 2017 7:29:04 GMT
I have a question about the voting process at the oscars. Are the exact results of the final voting process eventully made public? Like Moonlight got 89 votes and La La Land 81 votes for Best Picture or something like that. If not, how does the Academy guarantee that they actually give the award to the person or movie with the most votes and that they're not saying somebody else won?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 7:38:09 GMT
I have a question about the voting process at the oscars. Are the exact results of the final voting process eventully made public? Like Moonlight got 89 votes and La La Land 81 votes for Best Picture or something like that. If not, how does the Academy guarantee that they actually give the award to the person or movie with the most votes and that they're not saying somebody else won? Per Wikipedia... The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,783 as of 2012.[28]
Academy membership is divided into different branches, with each representing a different discipline in film production. Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 83 annual awards ceremonies.[29][30]
All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contributions to the field of motion pictures.
New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady since then.[31]
In 2012, the results of a study conducted by the Los Angeles Times were published describing the demographic breakdown of approximately 88% of AMPAS' voting membership. Of the 5,100+ active voters confirmed, 94% were Caucasian, 77% were male, and 54% were found to be over the age of 60. 33% of voting members are former nominees (14%) and winners (19%).[32]
In May 2011, the Academy sent a letter advising its 6,000 or so voting members that an online system for Oscar voting would be implemented in 2013.[33]
The results of the voting as described above are made public at the Academy Award ceremony. I don't know what else your question about public results might be. The security of voting results rests in the hands of an unbiased firm, as described above.
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Post by kevin on Feb 27, 2017 7:44:54 GMT
I have a question about the voting process at the oscars. Are the exact results of the final voting process eventully made public? Like Moonlight got 89 votes and La La Land 81 votes for Best Picture or something like that. If not, how does the Academy guarantee that they actually give the award to the person or movie with the most votes and that they're not saying somebody else won? Per Wikipedia... The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,783 as of 2012.[28]
Academy membership is divided into different branches, with each representing a different discipline in film production. Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 83 annual awards ceremonies.[29][30]
All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contributions to the field of motion pictures.
New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady since then.[31]
In 2012, the results of a study conducted by the Los Angeles Times were published describing the demographic breakdown of approximately 88% of AMPAS' voting membership. Of the 5,100+ active voters confirmed, 94% were Caucasian, 77% were male, and 54% were found to be over the age of 60. 33% of voting members are former nominees (14%) and winners (19%).[32]
In May 2011, the Academy sent a letter advising its 6,000 or so voting members that an online system for Oscar voting would be implemented in 2013.[33]
The results of the voting as described above are made public at the Academy Award ceremony. I don't know what else your question about public results might be. The security of voting results rests in the hands of an unbiased firm, as described above. Okay, thanks for the information.
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Post by kevin on Feb 28, 2017 18:51:29 GMT
Another question: So it's impossible to find out the amount of votes or ballots each movie gets for Best Picture? For example, I would have liked to know how close the call between La La Land and Moonlight was this year or if Fury Road was anywhere close to #1 for Best Picture last year.
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Post by Courwes on Feb 28, 2017 18:57:24 GMT
Yes they will never release the numbers.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 1, 2017 2:36:15 GMT
I am not sure how the voting is conducted for all (except Best Picture) categories which have a maximum of five nominees.
When the Academy went to 10 nominees for Best Picture (the 2010 awards calendar year – the 83rd) they moved to a kind of tabulation system used by countries like Ireland who don’t have a two-party system and many political parties and individuals can run for office. It works like this:
Candidates are ranked on the ballot by the voters.
The first count tallies only the #1 choices.
If no person (or, in our case, movie) gets over 50%, then the movie with the fewest votes is dropped from contention.
There is then a second count that moves everyone’s #2 ballot choice to #1. Those votes are added to the sum of the first round. If there is still no majority winner, then the same procedure is conducted in a third round and so on until a movie gets more than half the vote.
Sounds complicated, but a co-worker of mine who was born and raised in Ireland says that this is the best and fairest and most desirable of all vote counting methods and anyone who disagrees is a communist.
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