We’ve got many, many questions about what all goes into the Academy Awards. Not least of which, how exactly does best picture get decided? For the last 15 years, the 10,000-plus members of the Academy ...
It’s that time of year again. The 97th Oscar nominations are out, and I am back with my fourth annual game where we pretend we are Oscar voters, and we do a preferential ballot ranking of the Best ...
In 2009 -- when the academy went to 10 Best Picture nominees for the first time since 1943 -- the preferential system of voting, which had been used from 1934 to 1945, was reintroduced. The academy ...