Oscar Ballot Online Form

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every year the best in Hollywood are honored at the Academy Awards here's how the winners are chosen there are about 6,000 Academy members ing to Awards website Gold Derby around 85 percent of the members vote each year using either a paper ballot or their secret online ID during the nomination round Academy members are instructed to pick 5 nominees for each of the categories that they've actually worked in then rank them 1 to 5 in most categories a movie or person needs a certain number of first-place votes for a nomination when an entrant gets at least 20% more first-place votes than they need the extra votes get passed on to whomever was marked number 2 on those ballots this lets members vote for a clear front-runner without fearing their votes will be wasted the Best Picture category is special a movie must be the top choice on at least 5% of the ballots to get a nod and up to 10 movies can be nominated then comes the final round of voting for the winners for most categories it's p