Oscars 2023: The stage is set for the 95th Academy Award in Los Angeles and India is set to witness a major history unfolding in its history of 100 years. With nominations in three major categories, the country is looking at a very distinct opportunity where all three nominees are likely to win. All eyes remain on RRR as the film’s ‘Naatu Naatu’ song is nominated in the Best Original Song category. Guneet Monga’s ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ competes in the ‘Best Documentary Short Film category’, and ‘All That Breathes’ standing tall in the ‘Best Documentary Feature Film’ category.
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The road to an Oscar winds through a long awards season, which finally culminates Monday (morning as per IST) at the Academy Awards. We take you through the process of getting that golden statuette into a winner’s hand — this is how Oscar voting works:
OSCARS 2023: WHO VOTES ON THE OSCARS?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences boasts some 10,000-plus members, divided among 17 branches. All academy members have to be involved in the movie business in some capacity, but membership isn’t restricted to creatives — there are branches for executives and marketing and public relations professionals, as well.
While nominations are mostly decided by members of the relevant branch (directors nominate directors, for instance), all voting members can nominate films for best picture. Once nominees are decided, all voting members are eligible to cast their ballots in any category.
In recent years, the academy has taken steps to diversify its membership, especially after receiving criticism for a spate of all-white acting nominees. It adds new members once a year.
OSCARS 2023: WHEN DOES OSCAR VOTING TAKE PLACE?
Voting takes place over a few days not too long before the ceremony — in 2023, voting opened March 2 and ended March 7, five days before the big night.
OSCARS 2023: HOW ARE VOTES CAST?
While the final results can sometimes be controversial, there’s no risk of hanging chads — voting takes place entirely online. Tabulation for most categories is simple — the nominee that gets the most votes wins.
Best picture, on the other hand, employs ranked-choice voting (also known as preferential voting). Voters order the nominees by preference; if one movie comes away with more than 50% of the first-place votes in the first round, that’s the winner. But if no movie meets that threshold, then the one with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated — people who had ranked that film first will have their votes transferred to their second choices. And so on it goes until some movie wins a majority.
It sounds complicated, we know, but proponents of ranked-choice voting argue that it’s more representative, especially in a large field of nominees.
OSCARS 2023: WHO KNOWS THE WINNERS BEFORE THEY’RE ANNOUNCED?
According to the academy website, just two PricewaterhouseCoopers partners know the results beforehand. PwC is the accounting firm that tabulates the votes. Each partner is stationed in the Dolby Theatre’s wings during the ceremony with a full set of winners’ envelopes. They’re charged with handing the sealed envelope to the winner.
Infamously, in 2017, a PwC accountant handed Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope, resulting in the ‘La La Land’/Moonlight’ best picture fiasco.
— with inputs from AP
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