New Rule to Vote for Best Film in Oscar
by anamus on Sep.01, 2009, under awards, oscar
Oscar
New rules have been declared, which will decide the winner in the best picture category at this year’s Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have declared that discriminatory voting will now be used to add up the final vote for the award in the best picture category.
Instead of casting their vote only on their favorite movie, the voters will now have rate films to rank nominees for the best picture category in order of preference from 1 to 10. In the rest of the categories, the performer who earns a maximum number of votes will be given the Oscar Award.
The new system that will be implemented from this year for tallying vote for best picture is the similar to that of preferential voting system, which the Academy follows in its nominating process. Since 1945, this is the first time when Academy has used such a voting system for the Best Picture category.
Instead of nominating 5 films in the Best Picture category, the new voting system will now allow 10 films to bag nomination in Oscar.
Tom Sherak, the president of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have said, “Instead of just marking an X to indicate which one picture they believe to be the best, members will indicate their second, third and further preferences as well”.
In support to his statement he also explained that this new voting system will “establish the best picture recipient with the strongest support of a majority of our electorate”.
The nomination for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced on 2nd February at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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