Sep 1 2009Let'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]
Reader Comments
1. Yep - September 1, 2009 2:36 PM
Who gives a shit about the awards ?
Oh good a film I never want to see got a golden statue of a nood guy. WIN!
2. B - September 1, 2009 2:39 PM
OK, didn't even read the post. This new Supernatural bar thing at the bottom of the page, that tries to move when you scroll, and does stuff on mouseover?
Yeah, that has GOT to go.
Who thought that would be a good idea? Who thought it wouldn't be annoying? Does anyone as your advertizers what crap they're going to splatter all over your webpage, or do you just give them free reign to insert flash and java anywhere they want?
3. HilaryIWantYou - September 1, 2009 3:23 PM
This entire new process for the academy voting need a great big FAIL scrawled across it. As my great great grandpappy said (and yes, he was the Actual first person to say it) - if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
4. Kiaya - September 1, 2009 3:32 PM
..what kind of shit is that?
They don't have 2nd and 3rd place Oscars, so why rank them 1-10 if it only counts when they rank as 1?!
5. Lain - September 1, 2009 3:44 PM
#2
It's called an X button.
Use it.
6. bribios - September 1, 2009 3:55 PM
@3
That's the problem though, it was kinda broken. Dances With Wolves beat Goodfellas for best picture, which is the best example I can think of for it being broken. There are several others, I just don't feel like spending time at IMDB right now.
7. Nick - September 1, 2009 4:39 PM
I think they should resort to doing brackets and involve a Terrordome where representatives of each movie goes in and the last man/woman/robot standing wins.
I'd also like to see more violence in the opening number too.
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8. seearees - September 1, 2009 4:51 PM
@2 & 5
It's called ad block plus, use it
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11. Adam - September 2, 2009 9:01 AM
It's called Instant-Runoff Voting and it's the fairest voting system there is. To expand on bribios's example, the best picture nominees in 1990 were dances with wolves, awakenings, ghost, godfather 3 and goodfellas. With five nominees there's a small chance that any film got 50% of the vote. WIth IRV there's a good chance that the voters for awakenings or ghost may have thrown there support behind goodfellas, the superior film. There's probably an even better chance that supporters of Godfather 3 would have done so. Hopefully this will also mean that awful movies like slumdog millionaire and titanic will have less of a chance of winning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting