How ranked choice voting leads to fair representation in Oscar nominations
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on January 24, 2018

The Academy uses ranked choice voting to select the award for Best Picture at the Oscars to ensure broad support for the winning film.
Read moreExplaining Moonlight's Surprise Oscar Win
Posted on Quick News Rob Richie on February 27, 2017

Last night, the steadfast viewers seeing the Oscar telecast to the end experienced a shocking moment: "La La Land" was wrongly read as the Best Picture winner, only to soon be corrected with the actual winner, Moonlight. But what we really can productively learn relates to the virtues of the ranked choice voting ('instant runoff") system used by the Academy since 2009 to elect Best Picture.
Read moreThinking "Outside the Vox" on Best Picture and Ranked Choice Voting
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on February 20, 2017

Ranked choice voting is a smart system for the Oscars to use after increasing its number of Best Picture nominees. It's not rewarding mediocrity, but at least making sure that the "passion vote" is backed up with a majority vote.
Read moreLa La Land wins Producers Guild of America prize with ranked choice voting
Posted on Quick News Rob Richie on January 29, 2017

It's award season, and La La Land just picked up a big prize: the Darryl F. Zanuck Award from the Producers Guild of America (PGA). Underscoring how ranked choice voting is a smart, reliable system for handling voter choice, the PGA and Academy of Motion Pictures have picked the same winner all but one year since adopting the system
Read moreVote Like the Academy: Oscars 2017
Posted on What's New Shane Wade on January 12, 2017

Academy Award nomination voting began Thursday, January 5, and runs through Friday, January 13. By using ranked choice voting, the Academy allows a variety of nominees to be considered--from blockbuster hits, to independent films.
Read moreRanked Choice Voting Takes Center Stage at the 88th Academy Awards
Posted on What's New Molly Rockett, Chris Hughes on February 29, 2016

Using ranked choice voting, especially when there are so many nominees, is the best way to select a film that has the broadest support among all voters. Spotlight may not have been the most talked-about film or the most divisive film, but it did earn broad enough support, perhaps in second or third choices, to clinch the victory.
Read moreVoting and the Oscars: Six Numbers You Need to Know
Posted on What's New Molly Rockett, Chris Hughes on February 23, 2016

For this tenure, PricewaterhouseCoopers has successfully tabulated the results and delivered the winners for the Oscars without a single breach in the secrecy of the process.
Read moreThe Oscars, Diversity and Ranked Choice Voting
Posted on What's New Rob Richie on February 04, 2016

All the prominent award systems in the entertainment industry are subject to complaints about winners, nominations, and perceived snubs. The Academy Awards are no different, with particular concerns this year that all 20 nominated actors and actresses are white for the second straight year, triggering the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and commitments from The Academy to diversify the membership that votes on nominations.
Read moreA Fair Shot: How the Oscar Nominees Were Selected
Posted on What's New Molly Rockett, Austin Plier on January 14, 2016

The nominations for all Academy Award categories from Best Picture to Best Sound Mixing have been released. Most slates of nominees were selected using a voting system very similar to the “multi-winner” form of ranked choice voting that FairVote advocates for.
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