This year’s round of anonymous voters have shown us yet again how particular, and catty, Academy members can be
About 10,000 people get to vote for the Academy Awards. By all accounts they enjoy a relatively simple process. First they watch all the films. Then they decide which films they like the best. And then they run off to screech at as many media outlets as they possibly can about their choices.
That’s right, if it’s Oscar season it must be anonymous Oscar ballot season. This year, as with most other years, a fat swath of Oscar voters have spoken to various publications about their choices. Taken independently, the resulting pieces are usually a mess of bad opinions and insane bitchiness. However, once gathered and collated, they can sometimes make a pretty decent prediction tool. For example, last year’s batch correctly identified that Troy Kotsur and Will Smith would win, and that Being the Ricardos would be banished in shame. So what of this year? Glad you asked. Here’s what I could gather from this year’s anonymous crop.
