The head of the Kimberly Academy Roos sent a letter according to which the electronic voting system should be implemented as early as possible this year. "" As soon as the system starts work, the ballots will be abolished, "Rusch said.
We will remind, to take part in the choice of Oscars owners have the right to 5810 Film Academy members. Voting of the Film Academy members is traditionally held in two stages: at the first stage, the lists of films that have received the right to engage in the fight for Oscar and divided into nominations to which they can qualify are sent to members of the Academy who have the right to vote for any work issued to hire On the territory of the United States for the reporting period and form a "short list" (short list) of applicants for Oscar. After that, the film academics fill the bulletins, which handles the audit company PricewaterhouseCoopers. She also forms a short list of applicants for Oscar. The work in this list becomes official nominees. The list should be made public, after which the second stage of voting begins, during which the film academics must choose the best work from among those who passed to the semifinal, writes RIA Novosti.
Every year, 12 people are engaged in counting votes for many years - employees of the company PricewaterhouseCoopers, - in a secret place in the south of California, they manually recalculate all 6,000 ballots. However, envelopes are sealing with the names of the winners only two - Brad Oltmans and Rick Rosas. Any of those who participate in the counting of votes do not know who exactly will receive Oscar. All newsletters are randomly divided into four parts, then the data obtained by four groups, Oltmans and Rosas bring together and proceed to the preparation of envelopes. As Oltmans and Rosas told, they prepare cards with the names of the nominates, two each. When the envelope is sealed, excess cards are destroyed.