09.01.09 BEST PICTURE VOTE: NOW NEEDLESSLY COMPLEX
(”DOES THIS HAVE CHOCOLATE IN IT?”)
Back in June, the Academy announced that the Best Picture Oscar category would expand to 10 nominees, in order to rob five more films when Slumdog Millionaire wins. Now they say they’re also switching to a “preferential voting” system. It’s sort of complicated, but basically it’s like a sorority rush without “circle the fat.”
Voters will be asked to rank their preference from 1 to 10, with 1 being best. It’s the same preferential voting system that the Academy uses in its nominating process, but it hasn’t been used in best picture voting since 1945.
The Academy has opted to use the preferential system in the best picture race because with a field of 10 nominees, a winner could emerge with just slightly more than 580 votes out of the potential voting pool of 5,800 members.
…ballots are first separated according to first-place choices. If one film wins a majority among all first-place votes, it’s the winner. If not, the film with the fewest number of first-place votes is eliminated and the No. 2 choices on those ballots are redistributed among the remaining films. The process continues until one film has picked up a majority of votes. [THR]
In addition, FilmDrunk has learned exclusively of the following amendments to the voting system:
- +20 votes are awarded if the film depicts the holocaust
- +10 for other genocides
- A film earns +5 votes if the main character is a dead celebrity
- +5 if the lead is a musician
- +15 if the main character is a musician who is also a dead celebrity
- +40 for dead celebrity musicians during the holocaust
- An additional 20 votes are awarded to films which treat characters with a mental deficiency in a dignified manner
- +10 for a physical deficiency
- +5 for romanticization of the Third World
- +5 for every 25 pounds of weight an attractive actor gains for a role, plus an additional 5 for prosthetic noses, unibrows, liver spots, club feet, etc. Note: not eligible if Jared Leto.
- +10 for films set in New York or Los Angeles
- Cartoonish depictions of race relations earn 5 additional votes
- Historically accurate period pieces with a running time of more than 150 minutes receive 5 votes, plus 5 votes for every additional 10 minutes of running time
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BEST PICTURE VOTE: NOW NEEDLESSLY COMPLEX
The voting is going to be fucked when Academy members keep yelling, “FIRST!”
It’s nice that they’re trying to include a wider variety of films. But does anybody really think that this’ll suddenly make the Oscar voters cool? They’re still gonna’ nominate the same Oscar bait they always do. There’ll just be more of it.
Damn you to Grethor, Lince!!!
DNA left off the +50 votes for “pretending” to be gay. *eyes Sean Penn*
They should do it Little League World Series-style. Nominate five American films and five foreign films, then for the vote-off, have the winner among the American films take on the winner among the foreigners.
Also, the foreign filmmakers get to lie about when their movies came out.
This is starting to eerily resemble the way they vote for the American League MVP, and that process once awarded a trophy to Ivan Rodriquez.
+5 for a big-time actress playing a hooker
-50 for Sean Penn’s eventual portrayal of a gay retard.
-1000 for big-time actress playing said hooker not showing HER FUCKING TITS! WHAT? ARE YOU TOO GOOD TO SHOW YOUR TITS?! FUCK YOU IN THE ASS!!
Are any points awarded for films that are shot in New Orleans that are pretending to be L.A.?
+30 for a movie that produces a catch-phrase so saturating and annoying that your aunt forwards emails to you in reference to it.
+3/5 if the lead is Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Lawrence Fishbourne, Denzel Washington, etc…
When Tom Cruise said he’d do anything for an Oscar, the Academy mistakenly thought he meant one of their statues.
if this year was anything to go by, -1,000,000 if its an awesome movie starring Clint Eastwood or Mickey Rourke
You know, a movie people want to watch before it wins a fucking Oscar
Hollywood: if it’s worth doing, it’s worth fucking up.
Other needless complexes? The U.N. Burn that mother down!
“I’d like to thank the Academy, my agent, my wife of 25 wonderful years, and my statistician.”
I knew it. “I Am Sam” would have cleaned up if it was a WWII period piece where Dakota Fanning flashed some cleve… prude.
Incidentally, I found your mom’s period piece under my bad and it’s not pretty.
doh, bad=bed
So Saw IV has a shot?
Saw VI I mean.
/reminds self that I’m too retarded to know what roman numerals mean
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