Which of the contenders for best picture will be helped by a single-transferable vote?
The popular narrative among Oscar speculators this year is that the best picture will be a straight fight between box-office behemoth Avatar and critics' favourite The Hurt Locker. But additional spice will come from the fact that, for the first time since 1943, this category will be decided via instant run-off voting rather than first-past-the-post. Academy members must rank their 10 choices for best picture in order of preference (1, 2, 3, etc).
If no film is shown to be the first choice of a majority of voters, the film with the least first-choice votes is eliminated and the second choices of those voters are then distributed. This process continues until a winner has more than 50% of the votes. Gordon Brown recently revealed he wants much the same change to the British voting system.
Iain McLean, professor of politics at Nuffield College,...
The popular narrative among Oscar speculators this year is that the best picture will be a straight fight between box-office behemoth Avatar and critics' favourite The Hurt Locker. But additional spice will come from the fact that, for the first time since 1943, this category will be decided via instant run-off voting rather than first-past-the-post. Academy members must rank their 10 choices for best picture in order of preference (1, 2, 3, etc).
If no film is shown to be the first choice of a majority of voters, the film with the least first-choice votes is eliminated and the second choices of those voters are then distributed. This process continues until a winner has more than 50% of the votes. Gordon Brown recently revealed he wants much the same change to the British voting system.
Iain McLean, professor of politics at Nuffield College,...
- 3/1/2010
- by Leo Hickman
- The Guardian - Film News
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