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June 16, 2011
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Oscars Best Film Nominations Process is Tweaked
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![]() Some changes have been made to the Academy Awards voting and categories, but most notably some explaination and fine tuning of the way Best Film nominations will be handled, as well as how many would be listed. Deadline Hollywood quotes the press release: During the period studied, the average percentage of first place votes received by the top vote-getting movie was 20.5. After much analysis by Academy officials, it was determined that 5% of first place votes should be the minimum in order to receive a nomination, resulting in a slate of anywhere from five to 10 movies. It is interesting to see how that top 10 is selected and that they are not just throwing in the runners up to see who fills out the 10. It makes it more realistic that they would only include the Films that have had voters list it as their number one choice. They can all agree that a film is good, but if it doesn’t rank at least 5% of the Academy voting members Top Choice, then it certainly doesn’t deserve to be nominated. If that means that there are only 7 instead of 10 nominations, so be it. I don’t need fluff titles on that list - it detracts from the suspense when you already know 4 of the titles are not even contenders. On the other hand, it does honour those films that did recieve recognition from the Academy voters but might have fallen just outside of the 4-5 film limit for the ceremony. The Dark Knight Snub is oft speculated as being the reason they expanded the nominations list. It might have been up there among member voters, just not in the top 4, but perception is everything and it looked like no one voted for it at all. This tweak may give more credibility to the expanded Best Film noms. This post was written by :
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