Tag: Preferential Ballot

Outside the bubble, Hollywood and the Oscars have become the hated. They don't realize this because they don't have to. ...

We always look forward to Ryan Casselman's preferential ballot experiment every year and at long last, it has arrived! It ...

Since 2018, our friend Ryan Casselman has been doing an annual experiment where he polls his film industry friends on ...

The Academy has been using the ranked choice/preferential ballot since 2009. They had used it once before, way back in ...

When we're through this season we'll probably look back on it and think everything should have been really obvious. It ...

We're going to periodically run these polls for the fun of it. But to make tabulations slightly easier we're putting ...

Most people want to see the Academy Awards be what they once were. Not everyone, of course. After trying out ...

Most people don't think about ranked voting when they think about Best Picture. Even those predicting the race right now ...

We love it when Ryan Casselman puts out his annual preferential ballot explainer. Here is this year's version: https://youtu.be/cv0c6w83NjM  

2020 marks the last year the Academy will have a floating number of Best Picture nominees from five to 10. ...

I know, you're thinking how in the world did Hillbilly Elegy make it in as a nominee? How did it ...

In the Predictions Friday post I had a version of this form but it wasn't working properly. So please use ...

The internet is abuzz with the idea of Parasite winning Best Picture, on the heels of last year's Roma not ...

In 2017, I was one of the few pundits who took a chance and predicted Moonlight to beat La La ...

The cliché about Oscar voters is that they like sweeping epics (e.g., Out of Africa, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Braveheart, ...

The Academy's membership has grown since even a few years ago and is now around 9,000 total. But that number, ...

Bill Levin, who does deep-diving Oscar stat analysis, wrote in to ask me what I thought about the following: At ...

A funny thing happens on the way to Oscar. There are only two groups that employ the preferential ballot system ...

Marshall Flores and I have been running - what he calls - sims (simulations) for the preferential ballot on Facebook. ...

Oscars 2019 has felt like a treacherous trip over rough steep roads. You all know The Wages of Fear (1953) ...