Best Picture Voting Explained: How the Oscars Count the Votes

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentWhen Oscar nominations were announced March 15, mainstream-media headlines focused on the usual topics: best picture, the four acting categories and Hollywood’s current obsession, inclusion. These are all worth talking about, but the MSM virtually ignores one key element every year: The artisans.Those individuals are key to a movie’s success, as everyone in the industry knows.

Clayton Davis The NAACP Image Awards honor performances in film, television, music and literature, recognizing excellence in more than 40 categories that the organization’s members vote on, but the annual ceremony has been unfairly labeled as “awards for Black people.” Given that, the industry and awards voters of varying groups should be encouraged to watch the awards show and see how the NAACP recognizes artistic achievements from the year.The first live broadcast of the event occurred in

Clayton Davis Television and live events veteran Glenn Weiss will return to direct the 93rd Academy Awards.“Our plan is that this year’s Oscars will look like a movie, not a television show, and Glenn has embraced this approach and come up with ideas of his own on how to achieve this.

Clayton Davis The Academy Awards are over a month away, and the show’s details have been a drip-drip as the season presents various challenges for award shows and ratings.

Clayton Davis The Oscar nominations announced on March 15 didn’t offer too many surprises, but the race for best picture in this unconventional year is still wide open. Here’s how one of these five nominees could win the top trophy on April 25.“Mank” (Netflix)If you’re the most nominated film of the lot — ”Mank” leads all films with 10 nominations —then that typically makes you a heavy favorite to win it all.

For years, specialty films have counted on an Oscar best picture nomination to provide a major boost at the box office. This time around, analysts are stumped as to how much the top nominees will benefit, considering that the box office has yet to recover from the pandemic.

Clayton Davis The film academy announced its nominations on Monday, and with it, the first concrete details about the 93rd ceremony, including utilizing Los Angeles’ Union Station as a venue, after being forced to relocate due to pandemic restrictions.

Nominations were revealed Monday for the 93rd Oscars, the apex so far of a movie awards season that has been impacted by coronavirus with movie theaters shuttered forand the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forced to move its ceremony to its latest date ever, April 25.

The awards season just got hotter! The 93rd Academy Awards nominations have commenced and Nick Jonas along with have taken centre stage. Just hours after the Grammys 2021 came to an end, the Jonases have geared up to announce the most anticipated awards of the season.Priyanka and Nick will be announcing the nominations across 23 categories.

One Night in Miami, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman. Best Actor nominations include Chadwick Boseman, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins, while Best Actress nominees include Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby, Viola Davis, Frances McDormand and Andra Day.

Clayton Davis The BAFTA nominations were announced, throwing more unexpected turns in this overstretched awards season. What does it all mean for the Oscars?With the British Academy adopting juries for acting and directing, that’s where the nominees’ makeup was most different.

Clayton Davis Oscar ballots will be in the hands of AMPAS voters on March 5, and they’ll have until March 10 to turn them in. All the predicting, theorizing and prognosticating have led to this crucial six-day period when the nearly 10,000 Academy members make their choices among the year’s achievements.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

As Academy members drive through Los Angeles under an onslaught of FYC banners they are only days away from voting on the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards. And while the Golden Globes delivered the lowest-rated telecast in 13 years, they did provide something of a public relations boost to a number of contenders.

Clayton Davis Sacha Baron Cohen, Lee Isaac Chung, Chloé Zhao and many others virtually won Golden Globes on a night filled with technical hiccups and awkward Zoom moments. One of the notable things missing were the moments where a person’s name is called and they make the long walk to the stage and accept their statuettes (who can forget Jacqueline Bissett’s long journey which was parodied on “Saturday Night Live” by Vanessa Bayer).

's journey continues to be bountiful, winning the award for Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language during Sunday's 78th annual Golden Globe Awards.Director Lee Isaac Chung's semi-autobiographical film tells the story of a Korean-American family as they settle on an Arkansas farm in the 1980s in search of the American Dream. The cast includes Steven Yeun, Yeri Han and newcomers Noel Cho and Alan S.