From who gets to nominate, to why Best Picture is counted differently, here is how the Academy Awards voting system works ahead of Sunday night's ceremony, and how a new rule on film viewing could ...

Now that the final round of Oscar voting is over, it is a good time for a refresher course in how the winner will be decided. Don't worry, it is nowhere near as complicated as the nominations ...

Explore how Academy members choose nominees and winners using ranked ballots, branch voting, and final voting rules before ...

In 2009 -- when the academy went to 10 Best Picture nominees for the first time since 1943 -- the preferential system of voting, which had been used from 1934 to 1945, was reintroduced. The academy ...

The Oscars' voting process involves a branch voting system and preferential ballot, with new rules requiring Academy members ...

Eminence Advisory’s Dimitri Burshtein discusses compulsory preferential voting in Australia, reflecting on the problems associated with the system. “Democracy is meant to represent something, it’s ...

Anticipation for the 98th Academy Awards The prestigious 98th Academy Awards is set to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. As the finest films from the previous year compete ...