The Academy Awards are changing the way that they do things, yet again. As some of you may recall, the Best Picture category has expanded to from 5 films to ten.
If you don’t remember this, you can check out the article here.
As a result of this, the bosses at the Academy awards are changing the way that everyone votes on the best picture as well.
In the past, they asked that everyone just pick one as the winner. Instead, they will be rating each film in order preference. They want to see which film as the most support from the Academy.
Bruce Davis, Executive director to the Academy, says. “There are certain mathematical dangers with more nominees. You could really get a fragmentation to the point where a picture with 18 or 20 percent of the vote could win, and the board didn’t want that to happen.”
Sadly, I really don’t understand this. Wouldn’t the picture that most people pick as their number one choice be considered the film with the most support? Honestly, I don’t know enough when it comes to calculating votes and such. It only seems natural that when you have more options to choose from, the vote will be more divided.
Does this mean that if there isn’t an overwhelming support based on the number one vote, but nearly everyone chooses a particular film as their number two, than the number two film will win best picture?
That’s a really good question. Perhaps the votes will be weighted. Like, for every number 1 pick, a film gets, like, 10 points on the weighted scale. 5 points for number 2 picks, and so forth. Still, I don’t understand why they would move from the straight forward style of the past.
your question at the bottom is valid and sadly true. At least that’s how I would gather it.
It’s a rigged gala anyway, it’s the awards of pat-on-the-backs and making-up-for-last-time, usually. But I watch every year in hope that I’m proven incorrect.