Let's Change How Academy Award Voting Works
The Academy of Motion Picture Whatever has decided on a new, fairer Best Picture voting method that will ensure the wrong film wins in a more complicated manner this year:
The new system will require voters to rank each of the 10 nominees on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being best.The process calls for PricewaterhouseCoopers to first determine if one nominee has more than 50% of the first-place votes, which would make that film the winner. If no film has achieved that threshold, films will be eliminated progressively, based on which is ranked first on the fewest number of ballots.
When a film is eliminated, the pic ranked second on those ballots will be accorded a first-place vote. Films will be eliminated until a single movie has a majority of the first-place votes and becomes the best picture winner.
With this and the change to extend the Best Picture nominees to ten, I have to admit the Academy is working really hard to make sure I'll at least be confused when I'm angry about who wins.
Best Picture voting gets a makeover [Variety]