Facts: In a really tight race between the 5 movie nominees, one could win it with 21% of the votes. The ballots are tallied by accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers and it’s all done by hand. Sometimes just a few votes separate the winner from the losers. The voting process is complicated.
The academy is made up of people from the film industry. It allows members to vote for their colleagues, as directors vote on directors, actors for actors etc., but everyone is allowed to vote for the best picture contenders and it is this process that provides the complications. All members may vote for 5 films, ranked by order of preference. A nominee must get the 1st rank by at least a fifth of the voters. Rarely 5 nominees cross that threshold. Then, the Academy takes the movie with the lowest No1 votes and reallocates those votes to the 2nd choices on the ballots. The complexe voting system continues until 5 movies have crossed the 1/5th threshold. Lately members have been finally casting their votes for a winner amongst the 5 nominees. The Oscar winner is whoever gets the most votes. So one can win with just 21%.
Chocolates brought by Wolfgang Puck at the Governors Ball Menu
If you are on the A list of invited guests at the Oscar’s Governors Ball this year, expect to dine on Wolfgang Puck’s best delicacies.
If not, make your own A list! Whether you host or are invited gather the friends around the TV and celebrate with a dessert’s befitting royalty such as O Magazine’s pick Red Velvet cheese cake? Judge the pre-show fashions while noshing on Amedei chocolate’s, voted the World’s Best, for three consecutive years. Or be the original of the party with a bite-sized One Girl Cookies!
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